italy

ancient ruins in Rome

john at the Colosseum (too hot to wait in line)

old and ‘new’

our gang at La Piccola near Piazza Narvona

we arrive in Positano after a a gut-wrenching drive and are greeted with this view!

Hike of the Gods – we took a break here for pictures and fresh figs off the tree

campanula – which means ‘little bell’ – growing elegantly from out of the rocks

looking down on Priano, the quiet little town where we began our hike

this wild arugula (rocket, as they call it in Italy) was delicious and spicy

farmland and fishing boats

sea holly grows at higher altitudes

the scenes were incredible – like these old ruins of a farmhouse and stacked farmland

back into town – where I spy on a newlywed couple having their pictures taken

beautiful door-pulls at a fancy hotel

cat nap

tropical flowers – mandevilla? – seem to grow from every crack and crevice

sunset over Positano

lots of girl-watching happens in Italy

the lemons…oh, the lemons…

bathers at Capri

John and I at the Gardens of Augustus, Capri (a short Ferry ride from Positano)

at Capri’s ‘La Certosa di San Giacomo’, a monastery and art gallery. John and were struck by the haunting works of Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach

light-filled chapel

John

Capri!

Capri was very, very fancy

on the boat back to Positano…happy to be ‘home’

evening lights

our tiny little private beach, ‘just’ a few hundred steps down from our villa