Our last full day in Amalfi. Back to Bar Della Valle for breakfast. We like this place. We're here early at 8:00 am and are told limited to what we can order. Nothing that has to be cooked, toasted, etc. This morning I get cappuccino, a cream filled pastry as no sugar donut, orange juice. Richard gets cappuccino and a plain pastry. In hindsight we should have gone back to the hotel and returned around 9:00 am when the full breakfast menu would be available. But Richard says he's ok with what he had. Cost 16€.
We've decide to not venture out to Positano or Praiano. We are still recovering from that horrific bus experience from yesterday. (When we have already left Amalfi to go to Rome I realize that most would likely take the ferry to go to Positano so maybe the bus wouldn't have been so bad.) Oh well. I think I want to visit the paper museum. We ask the manager Andrea and he says it's to the right after leaving the hotel and about a mile up the road. He also says we have to pay 86€ in cash. I know there's a city tax but that seems like a lot. I ask for a receipt and he says for me to give him my e-mail address and he'll make sure I get a receipt within 3 days. Later I do some checking. The city tax here is 3€ per person per night. There's 2 of us and we are here for 6 nights. That adds up to 36€. What's the other 50€ for?? As we're walking to the museum we pass another laundry place but here you can drop off your laundry and pick it up later. They do it for you. I would think it would be more expensive but it might have been worth it to not have to wait.
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Museo della Carta. Several options for visiting. The cheapest is you do it yourself, no guide. I decide it would be better with a guide and it's not that much more. We have to wait until the guide is finished with the group she has now. There's 2 rooms after we enter. The first room has all manners of cool stuff for sale like journals, ink, pens...... The other room is like a small museum with some displays we look at while we wait. There's less than 10 in our group. The guide speaks good English and it's easy to understand what she's telling us about the history, how paper was made years ago, and so much more. At one point we even get to try our hand at making a sheet of paper. It was cool. Before leaving I buy a paper made the old fashion way that has ARIES-my birth sign. This was a fun, informative time. So glad we did this.
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| I did it! |
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| Souvenir I bought |
After we walk back to the hotel, do some packing as we leave tomorrow and then spend 3 hours at the pool. Just chilling. I also make arrangements with manager Andrea for the pick up of our luggage and us for 7:15 am. Cost will be 40€.
For dinner I think we'll look at some places and then decide which one. We check out Al Cancelletto, Ristorante L'Abside, and Da Gemma. There's a pharmacy and it's open. I buy another gel pak for my leg as I can't find the one I brought from home. Richard thinks I left it in Venice. Cost 16.50€. It also has a spray can of some cooling liquid. We decide to have dinner at Al Cancelletto.
Al Cancelletto. Inside and outside tables. We eat inside. Large menu. Drinks-Peroni beer and glass of house white wine. I get the linguine with vegetables. Richard gets the seared tuna which comes with potato. We order a side salad to share. Service was fine. Food was ok. Nothing to write home about. Richard said his tuna was a little overcooked. My pasta with vegetables was fine. Nothing will compare to dinner at SENSI! But cost wise this place isn't bad 63€/$67.75.
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| Outside tables |
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| Inside tables |
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| Richard making the dressing for the salad |
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| Side salad |
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Seared tuna
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| Pasta with vegetables |
We take our time walking back to our hotel. Window shopping. I would have bought one of those tops decorated with lemons but they didn't' have my size! We finish packing. Tomorrow is a long day. Bus from Amalfi to Salerno as it leaves earlier than the first ferry. Then train from Salerno to Rome, our last stop for Italy.
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