doing awesome.

yeah... doing incredibly awesome. i prayed for a friend here in italy, and got one! i met a friend here in my hostel in naples who wanted to do the same thing as me, so off we went!

so today we headed for the amalfi coast. SO AMAZING. i usually just buy one postcard of everywhere i go, to keep costs down as well as the weight of my bag. well, let me tell you, this place was so amazing that i bought a whole book. yes, it is that good.

so we took the boat-ferry to amalfi from naples, about 2.5 hrs, and then hung around amalfi a bit. tehy have a pretty cool duomo there, apparently where st andrew is buried? so pretty cool. and the whole town is built on a hillside, so the streets are alleyways/stairs leading up the mountainside. so we wound our ways up, then back down again adn caught a bus to positano. seen the movie "under the tuscan sun"? she goes to positano to meet her guy friend... so amazing. we liked positano even better than amalfi. there was a woman selling real lemon slushes on the corner (with the seeds still in it! yum!), so we bought some and wandered down the hill to the beach. we watched a few fishermen dive into the aquamarine waves to bring their boats into shore, and took pictures of the lighthouse with waves crashing on the breakwaters. so amazing. it did rain on us some, but it helped to cool things off, so we werent too put off. then back on the bus to sorrento. the bus ride was erally part of the amzing part of the day... winding roads along the side of the mountains that just drop off onto cliffs in the deep blue waters. can i say how amazing it was? so then back on the train back to napoli, with a cheap, amazing pizza dinner with 5 other single travellers - 2 americans, 2 aussies, a kiwi and a brazilian. sweetness. gelati on the way home, and now a quiet evening watching oceans 12. what a perfect day.