Ravello and Minori

After an amazing dinner last night we slept well. Awoke to sunshine and currently enjoying our first cup of coffee on our balcony.

Our plan today is to take a bus to Minori to explore the town that's not too far away.

The bus ride was quite the experience. The buses take over a full lane, and around corners they take up the whole road.

Minori is picturesque. It claims to have the best beach on the Amalfi coast and it is where the Italians prefer to come.

After a coffee at a beach Cafe, we wander thru the town, past the church and a lemoncello factory and went up the Lemon Trail towards Meori. Many steps to reach a lookout over Minori. We sat for awhile, and John took pictures for tourists. He should have charged for that to help defray the cost of the taxi yesterday!

Back down we went and found a famous pastry shop owned by the best pastry chef in the world (so TripAdvisor says), Sal de Riso. Not cheap but tasty!

We wandered Minori some more, then decided to take a bus back to our hotel for a rest.

Mid afternoon we walked to an small town called Atori. It is an ancient fishing village which has a small beach and lots of restaurants and bars.

It's an interesting walk along the road. No sidewalks and buses, cars, vespas and motorcycles pass by quite close.

Upon returning to our hotel, John counted the steps down to our room from the road. A total of 130.

Today of the 9,000 plus steps we've taken, I'm sure greater than 50% were on stairs.

Before dinner, we walked down from our room to the area where we could go onto the sea. Another 160 steps. This hotel is amazing. The staff are wonderful.

Tonight for dinner we had ravioli stuffed with swordfish, followed by a green bean dish (John loved it and he hates green beans!) And salt cod in a tomato sauce. So good. John had lemon Gelato and I had panacotta for dessert.
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