amalfi 🍋

Salerno - Thursday 6th of June - 16751 steps

A boattrip to Amalfi after breakfast and Henk's daily diary drawing.

Only a half-hour walk through the city to the harbor from where the boats depart to all the beautiful places on the Amalfi Coast.

Upon arrival the Costiera Amalfitana is even more beautiful than we could have imagined. We are not surprised, you get lyrical about this place. The Amalfi Coast is considered one of the most beautiful coasts in the world because of its natural beauty and cultural history. It is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Many beautiful lidos with hundreds of colored parasols and italian sunbeds, however there is still a lot of faded glory, we are happy about that!

Caffe freddo at the not so trendy beach bar is always more fun.

We walk along the coastal road to Atrani (this deserves a special blogpost).

Once we get back to Amalfi we go into the old town and it's busy busy busy everywhere. We have lunch at Pescheria Cica and had fresh fried seafood in a paper cone, the perfect quick snack turned out to be a great choice! We treated ourselves on typical lemon sorbets, served in a huge fresh lemons, for desert.

In the afternoon a dip in the sea and drinks in the sun on the beach in Amalfi, what else do you want?!

Dinner at nostra casa with bella musica e vista sul mare.
Pasta-pesto & anchovies.
Salad with tomatoes & tuna.
Prosecco & Peroni Capri to end this day in style.
The Amalfi Coast is something of divine beauty!

lapad - summer in spring

Lapad - Tuesday 30th of April

Oh this week in Croatia was soooo much of a holiday!

And to think that we even planned to rebook our holiday a few days before departure due to the bad weather forecasts in our weather apps. Fortunately, we have not allowed ourselves to be fooled by the modern means of our time. Nevertheless we just went to Dubrovnik according to plan, because let's face it, in the past you didn't know in advance what the weather would be like and it changes day by day. We said to each other 20 times this week; Imagine if we had canceled this!

We had a more than fantastic week, our stay in the suburb of Lapad was a perfect choice. The Croatian coast surprised us with its natural beauty. And Dubrovnik is incredibly beautiful, no wonder it is often crowded because everyone wants to visit this ancient UNESCO World Heritage Site.

On the last day we flew back to Rotterdam only in the evening, so we still had a whole day to enjoy the sun, the sea and that nice summer feeling together.

Coffee at the Tenis Klub and another afternoon in Lapad bay. Henk made a daily drawing of my tennis court photo for our holiday book. We made another work of art from stones, things we found on the beach (little waste, the coast is remarkably clean here) and dried pine twigs. We seriously considered to bring the lovable face of our Lapad Figure home with us. Wouldn't look out of place on a table at home, hahaha...