I’ve been 3 days on the Amalfi Coast and they have all been packed with activities and even more laughs. I’m with the tour company Culture Discovery and we are staying in a private villa above the hotel Luna. The view from the villa overlooking the Mediterranean is spectacular. The group this time has 14 people all of which are great fun to be around. One of the best things about the villa is the staff, they treat everyone like family and the oldest one in charge is a treasure. She has a great sense of humor and very quick wit. We all arrived on Saturday and as best views go there were a lot of stairs to climb to get to the villa. We had our first cooking class on Sunday and our second one tonight. We went to the Isle of Capri on Monday, a paper mill on Sunday where they still make the paper by hand and the ruins in Pompeii today. The road to the villa and along the coast is an adventure in itself. The road is narrow and when we were driving from Naples to the villa on Saturday our bus driver had to back down the road twice in order for two larger buses to move past us. The distance between our small bus and the larger city buses was less than 2 inches. I was sitting on the side by the limestone mountain and was surprises we did not have scratches on the bus from the jagged rock edges. The best part was listening to our driver speaking to the other bus drivers – I don’t know what he was saying but I’m pretty sure he was not telling them they were the best drivers on the road.
The wifi in Amalfi is not the best and when we visited the town for a few hours even the shop owners were complaining. One girl was telling us that her brother will get on her wifi and surf with no issues but then her phone won’t work or her tablet. The wifi in the villa has not been working very well but they are supposed to come take a look at it tomorrow.
There are lots of people to describe and I will provide an update on them before the end of the week. Most everyone is from the US but there is one woman here from South Africa who has three sons in the US. Our director for the week is Spartaco who works hard everyday to make sure we are on schedule and everyone is having a great time. I’ve been posting pics to show the best of my adventure week so far and will continue as I can do those from my phone.
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