Hi From Aix-en Provence:
Well, we’re back in Aix-en Provence after a 25-hour journey that started yesterday at noon in Positano. It included a very over priced room in Rome last night. We’ve been home five hours and Marlene has been in bed the entire time. She got a cold and then a sinus infection, to go along with a bad back. So, she’s been dragging and we had to drag her home today. The rest of us have been doing fine, eating popcorn and toast with peanut butter for dinner.
When we last left you last Wednesday on our Amalfi Coast tour, we were just getting to Ravello, a village above the town of Amalfi. As it turns out, Ravello is very nice and certainly nicer than we expected, though I’m not sure we really had expectations. The Amalfi Coast is famous for lemons. They grow lemons that are easily larger than grape fruit. There are lemons everywhere. They grow them on terraces, such as those seen in the photo from Ravello. They are growing lemons the year around and they are often covered by green netting. They use donkeys to help in harvesting the lemons. There’s a photo of looking down 1,000 feet to the sea shore. There’s a photo of the town center (plaza) and another looking down a street off the plaza. It’s not easy driving up to Ravello (there are also a series of steps you can climb to Ravello---sure), the road is very narrow and sometimes only one lane. Yet, when you are in Ravello there are people living above the town, as you can see looking at the neighboring terrain. There’s another photo of the plaza and some Roman ruins near the plaza. As frequently seems to be the case, there are so many Roman ruins that folks take them fore granted. Such ruins in the U.S. would be listed as a national treasure and viewed through glass. We wandered off the plaza to a hotel that had nice grounds and a nice view to what lies below.
Thursday was supposed to be a rainy day, but turned out to be the nicest day of the week. So, we actually took some Amalfi Coast photos in the sun. They’re coming soon.
The Wilson
