Picture Perfect

It is almost as if you couldn't take a bad pictures. It is so beautiful and almost unbelievable. Like you are inside a story book or a travel magazine. Look, Just look at how beautiful it is!

Paige and her friend jumping off the ledge

The water was amazing! The best part of the whole thing. Clear and  cool and so full of salt floating was not an option or something you had to try to do. Very relaxing!

more jumping 

HOWEVER: I would like to tell you something. Sometimes the pictures are better then the experience, or maybe sometimes just outside the frame of the picture is the negative part of the experience. Sometimes its a little extra graffiti, or maybe in the picture you cant smell the horrible sulfer smell. 

Today it was a lot of people , (its tourist season.) So many on the beach like seals on a rock, so many in the streets, Also a really long windy road that is small and then there are cars parked on either side and people walking and crazy drivers and busses too big for the road for about an hour. NO parking, now try turning around and driving back and forth on fore mentioned road trying to find a place to put your car because you have 3 beach ready teens in the car.

Then there was the stairs. Why when you see people enjoying the beaches on the Amalfi coast do none of them look like they just walked from cliff hight to sea level on a narrow steep set of stone stairs. Doesn't sound so bad does it? Ill admit I read about the standard 300 stairs to the beach and didn't think much of it. Well, I had to do them completely twice to fix my car situation and then the usual up and down to the beach carrying all the things people need to go to the beach.   300... that is a real number! No exaggeration!  Then there was the beach of softball size stones.

Don't get me wrong, I know how fortunate we are to be able to travel and to see all these amazing things, and we did have fun at the beach, I am glad we went, but there are many beautiful sand beaches with normal drives and parking  lots all at sea level. Im in Italy for Heaven sakes.
Sometimes the pictures just lie.

To future visitors who would like to go to an Amalfi beach bring a lot of money because renting a boat is the only way you are gong to get me back on one of them when there are so many beautiful beaches to go to!

Touring the towns in Amalfi is great, going to the beach is a challenge!