It was raining and mostly cloudy for most of the day today again. However, mom and I decided to go to the town of Ravello, high up on the hill overlooking the entire coast and the Mediterranean Sea. The rain stopped for a couple of hours in the middle of the day that allowed us to walk around the small, cute town (there are no cars allowed in the town). As it started to look like it was going to rain again, mom and I decided to have lunch overlooking the coast. This was the first time we’ve had a real lunch this whole trip, so it was very exciting. It was also our dinner… as our one meal a day budget only allows such. We chose Villa Maria as our lunch spot and it was a beautiful place- also a hotel (4 star). We had a cappuccino to start our meal as we were cold, and then mom had fish and anchovies over a bed of lettuce and lemons and I have linguine and clams with winter tomatoes, yummy. We couldn’t finish the food so we requested to take it home and we ate it when we got home a couple of hours later. As we were eating lunch, it started pouring, so we were very glad we were inside! After we finished lunch, we returned down the long stairs and through a tunnel back to our vehicle where it again started raining as we got into the car (lucky) and we made our way back down the treacherous, tiny road (which I videoed) that was only made really for one car and it was a two-way street. We were planning on stopping in Amalfi on the way back to Praiano (our home base) but it was raining still so we decided just to head home. In our town there are some really neat and original little displays on the side of the road of a miniature town with boats, fisherman, houses, fish and etc. We stopped to take photos of this incredible masterpiece. When we finally got back safely to our hotel, it started pouring again and I really wanted to walk down to the beach (at least 400 steps and quite a cliff), so we waited until there was a lull in the storm. When we finally bundled up, we ventured out on the small pathways to the ocean, where after about 20 minutes we found huge waves, wind and a few fisherman! We took some photos, watched the sunset and made the good stairmaster trek up the hill back to the hotel where a bit later, it started pouring again! I was also craving some chocolate so mom asked the people if they had more of the chocolates that they put on our bed last night and a little while later a tray of chocolate came to our door, with different types of desserts and the chocolate hearts from our bed! It was very cool. Okay, well enough for now. Off to drink wine and edit some photos.
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