ITALY - DAY 23 Today was a day of rest. The girls played in the pool on and off all day only getting out to have lunch. It was so nice to just put our feet up and not have to go anywhere or do anything. Later in the afternoon, when the sun had lost some of it's heat we walked around the headland and into Amalfi. We wanted to see more of this village. It was very pretty. For the last several days they have been celebrating Saint Andrew the patron of fishermen....

ITALY - DAY 22 Today we headed by car to Telese, the home town of Pasqual's dad. It was only 120 kilometres away but it took us two and a half hours to get there due to the narrow, windy roads. We meet Pasqual's distant cousins who showed us through his great grandparents house before taking us through the town to see the sights. They have sulphur springs which people swim in, drink etc as they believe that sulphur is suppose to be extremely good for your sk...

ITALY - DAY 21 We headed into Positano to have a look around. We parked as soon as we found a car park, then had to walk a mile down the mountain side to get to the city centre. We wandered down the streets looking at the shops (all the clothing was very expensive) and continued until we came to the ocean. I found a nice wide brimmed hat and the girls were allowed to purchase a ball to play with in the pool. We have to say, Positano wasn't what I thought it wa...

ITALY - DAY 20 We slept in today, hooray! After breakfast we decided to walk into Amalfi, a fifteen minute walk from Atrani. This was wonderful. It was overcast so it wasn't too hot and in no time at all we were in Amalfi. We wandered down the beach street looking at this and that, until Pasqual decided that we should charter a small boat to take us for a ride to the Emerald Grotto. It was fabulous. We had the boat to ourselves. The boat driver pointed out So...

ITALY - DAY 19 We got up extremely early and headed to the bus station and waited and waited. When it finally came we boarded and arrived at the termini. We were suppose to board the 7:36 train to Salerno but there was a train leaving at 6:36 so we high tailed it onto the train just before it left. Drama - no seats. We leaned on walls for the first hour until we stopped and several people left. We grabbed the seats only to have them taken off us at the next st...