Walk to Ravello

Jen has organised a series of walks around the Amalfi Coast with a company from Australia called Auswalk.
They provide a guide that is reasonably clear and allows you to walk through history (quite literally) and understand what it might have been like living there hundreds of years ago and when there was lots of paper mills.
They grow a lot of lemons 🍋 in the area and as a consequence the fruit dominates both the fashion and the food as well as ceramics.
The company called this walk easy and I have to tell you it was not.
Sitting here in Ravello I am cooked and could easily just go to sleep for an hour or so. Fortunately the temperature only got to about 30 Celsius and the walk would have been much tougher if it had been hotter.

I really enjoyed it, there definitely was a LOT of stairs but there was plenty of cool places to stop… we stopped at a paper manufacturer,had a local lemonade at a beautiful restaurant in the middle of nowhere overlooking the Valley dei Mulini , a meditation by a waterfall, listened to an impromptu concert/ sing a long in the middle of the bush by three piano accordion players and ate chocolate in the shade of a mansion in Centro . 9 km later we then arrived in Ravello where Rich fell in love with a belt and we had a drink in Piszza Vescovada ( Duoma)
Rich decided to catch a bus back but I wanted to experience the walk. It went a different way, this time through Valle Di Dragone - the original route from mountain to Forest and only about 4 km. It was basically all down hill( hard on your knees!) came back through a cute little town called Atrani via lots of atmospheric tunnels, alleys and steps.
We met back at the room and then went down the beach for a swim . The water was nice but the beach just pebbles and hardly a square inch to sit down.
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