Positano was glorious

Seriously. Glorious.

What did we do? Well, there was a lot of laying around doing nothing for a start, but there aren't any photos of that, because I was doing nothing!

We shopped. A lot.

Especially here, where D'arcy needed to be forcibly removed. They custom make sandals and we got quite carried away, if you look really hard, you can see me, I'm the white blob, squatting down near the door. I was helping D'arcy with yet another pair of shoes. David wore a hole in the concrete seat on the other side of the road waiting for us, which is where he snapped this photo from. We also bought a number of outfits for D'arcy in some of the local Positanese stores, and some gorgeous paintings of the area by local artists.

We ate. A lot.

Mostly at the little restaurants that are right on the beach. I'm not much of a photographer of meals, so there's not a lot of evidence of it, but I have these photos. Not our favourite place to eat, but it was right on the beach.

Doesn't D'arcy look pleased I'm snapping away at her again?

We also hung out at the beach and swam.

Have a look at this gorgeous little Italian boy and his Nonno fishing on a pier! How gorgeous :) This was at a beach called Il Fornillo, just a short walk from Positano.

We took a trip on a ferry to Amalfi.

We took a bus from Amalfi to Ravello.

We even spent one amazing day on a private motor yacht, sailing around the Amalfi Coast! Where we jumped off the back of the boat and swam, entered into a cave, or grotto and saw the shining, blue water, ate lunch at a restaurant you can only get to by boat, and sailed around a group of island, once owned by Rudolf Nureyev! It was amazing.

15 days in Positano = Heaven

D'arcy stole my hat and gave me her best "Next top Model" pose for this shot.

The view from our balcony at the hotel in Positano. Just gorgeous!!!!!

Positano is seriously one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen.

We were here for just 3 days in 2005 and never wanted to leave.

Is it touristy? Yep. Is is expensive? Yep. Is it crowded most of the time? Yep. But still, there is something magical about it here. Someone described it as Disneyland-like. That was meant to be an insult. I think it's somewhat of a perfect description actually. But for a Disney freak like me, there's no insult here. Disneyland is one of the most lovely, magical places I've been too, and Positano is Disneyland for grown ups, and even for some of us who pretend we're grown up too!

We have 15 days here and have planned, well, pretty much nothing. We're going to go to the beach, plenty of sunscreen this time. We're going to eat a lot of pizza, because, the closer you get to Naples the better the pizza is. We're going to eat a lot of gelato, because, this is Italy, and you'd be mental not to eat a lot of gelato. We're going to relax, wear thongs on our feet, sleep in and go shopping. Yep, that's the plan.