Thinking back on our honeymoon 39 years ago,

[elleng]

from Ravello to Positano for lunch (@ Santa Caterina,) to dinner along Amalfi coast @ La Caravella, on to lunch in Calabria 'tomorrow,' and on to dinner in Taormina @ Love Story.

Thanks for joining me!

[John1956PA]

1. The itinerary reminds me of the movie "Under The Tuscan Sun" (2003).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328589/

Thanks for sharing your wonderful adventure.

[elleng]

2. You're welcome! This was 'just' the first few days,

had Easter in Siracusa, then headed back north, toward Roma, Orvieto, Firenze, Parma, and Bellagio, lunch in St. Moritz! Home through Milano.

[John1956PA]

4. It appears that your honeymoon tour was self-guided, but well planned.

Railway travel is quaint, but buses offer more flexibility. Private tour drivers are the best, but more costly. You certainly traveled many miles traversing the country.

[elleng]

6. QUITE self-guided, rented a car and drove, only 'plan' was hotel in Rome upon our arrival;

friend of Dad's made the reservation.

My husband had lived in Rome during college (same year I lived in Nottingham, and wandered around,) so he was comfortable with language and getting around.

[DFW]

3. Small world

My daughter chose the Amalfi coast, too.

Ours was far less romantic. We roughed it on a tiny Adriatic island off the coast of Croatia that had one telephone for the whole island. It was some 50 year old (this was 1982) museum piece that belonged in a museum, and it was at the post office. To get there, it took a two day combination of trains, two ferries, and a long bus ride from one end of an island called Cres to the other. There were no cars, barely some electricity, and ferry boat back to a bigger island that came once every two days. The only water was what the rain barrels atop each house could collect. The one accessible «beach» was a cement wall a few hundred meters from the village, which had no hotels, just one of the residents who coordinated arrivals with other residents, who took in boarders. Finding one was really hairy (another story in itself). We only found a bed because I spoke both Russian and Italian. But we got used to the primitive routine, stayed a couple of weeks, and made one friend for life who, now over 40 years later, still finds his way to our house for both our birthdays and our German version of Thanksgiving every November.

[elleng]

7. Nice! We drove around the country, so Amalfi coast happened to be geographically #1,

and lovely of course.

Easter shortly after our wedding, so we 'observed' it in/around Siracusa > Taormina etc and almost didn't find place to sleep Easter eve; thought might sleep in the car, but did run into Porto Empedocle.

Then headed north. Stayed in spots along our route.

I never got to Adriatic coast.

[DFW]

9. They sent us this pic from one of the places they stayed on the Amalfi coast

One day, maybe...........

[elleng]

10. Lovely!

[PJMcK]

5. Wow!

What a trip that must have been! The food was exceptional, I’ll bet.

[elleng]

8. Not one bad meal!