Sunday flights of fancy
Anyhow, one among Fifi's readers despatched her some snap shots of a latest experience to the Amalfi Coast and Capri and it got me pining for a go back to that a part of the sector. It's bloodless in Florida nowadays. Trust me, whilst you move to a tropical climate, 60 levels may as properly be 20 beneath. Ugh! I cannot stand cold snaps. Mercifully, they simplest show up multiple times a 12 months.
So modern day a day it's ideal for having a pipe dream and fantasizing approximately warmer instances. To help set the mood, here are multiple photographs from my journey to the Amalfi Coast in May of '08. All of those have been taken by using me inside the fascinating-past-phrases city ofRavello. Some day, I'll put up some photographs of Positano, the city where I left my heart. But within the meantime, here's Ravello.
This is the view from a balcony within the Villa Ruffalo. That's the town of Maiori in the distance.
This is the restaurant balcony of the Villa Ruffalo.
Looking down on the terraced farms that cowl this part of the world.
This is the front entrance to the Villa Cimbrone in Ravello.
The gardens of the Villa Cimbrone.
Me inspecting a statue of a younger Apollo. Inspecting for artistic advantage, of route.
A bust of 1 my heroes, Augustus Caesar.
One of myriad passages and entryways that cover this small hill metropolis.
My pals and I stumbled upon a couple of young ballerinas from the High School in Ravello. It's a curious element to reflect onconsideration on humans actually dwelling and raising families in a place so enchanted as this.
Stay heat these days gang. Send me some photographs of journeys to hotter locations and I'll submit them in some form of a heat up for the collective subconscious.