Today we drove along Amalfi Drive as it's known. What it actually is, is a magical tour over mountainous and very narrow roads around cliff edges. The height it climbs to is amazing and the views are totally spectacular. The route though is so challenging that only a specialist driver can take a full size 60 seater coach up there so we didn't have our normal driver. God knows what car drivers coming the other way must think when they are approaching a blind bend and a huge coach veers round the corner taking up all of the road!

Amalfi itself is fabulous;if I get to have another life I'll ask to be called De Niro and be born either in Amalfi or Capri!  So, two tips for you; (1) at some point in your life go to both these places if you possibly can and (2) don't drive, let some crazy Italian do it for you.

Oh yeah, have you seen that tv advert that shows Audrey Hepburn in an old bus and she gets out and into a Mercedes and eats Galaxy chocolate? Well that was filmed on the route we took today.  We didn't see her as she's currently dead. We also passed what used to be Sophia Loren's villa. But she's dead at the moment, too.  Georgio Armani's (by all accounts) yacht was moored in the bay and I don't think he was dead as of this morning.

So, only one beer so far today George and mum is teetotal again so far today. But today's culinary item is that it was swordfish for dinner and it was beautiful although I thought the sharp bit was a bit chewy; perhaps you're meant to leave that bit. Mum, of course doesn't like fish so she just had a sword omelette.
I've been getting more adventurous speaking Italian as they like it when you try. But when I asked the guy at a cafe how much I owed him he looked at me as if I'd told him I'd slept with his wife! We got there in the end but I checked with our tour guide and she confirmed I'd used all the right words and, possibly in the right order. So maybe Italian is not conducive to a Yorkshire accent?
P.S. Coffee and cake Italian style!