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Positano is in Campania, Italy.

Contents 1 Get in 2 Get around 3 See 4 Do 5 Buy 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Sleep 9 Get out

Get in

• By Bus: take the Sita bus from Sorrento or Salerno('a bit longer journey, but nice!)
• Read about the unified public transport ticket Campania Unico.

Get around

• By Foot: There are loads of little stairs leading from everywhere to everywhere straight. Alternatively there is the one road meandering down to the harbour.
• By Bus: a local bus goes down and - especially - up the hill following the meandering always congested road. On that bus no Unico Campania tickets are valid!

See

• The place itself.
• The harbour.
• The shops near the harbour.

Do

• Ferry trip to Paestum or Ischia and Capri during summer months.

Buy

• Lemons, extralarge.
• All sort of lemon products.
• Colourfully painted tiles.
• Colourful silks.

Eat

• La Grotta Azura is a cheap and nice local restaurant offering local food close to the first bus stop coming from Sorrento. The owners are an old italian couple which don't care that they speak only Italian and you only anything but Italian and just serve you their very tasty food.

Drink

Sleep

• Hostel Brikette is apparently the only low budget hostel in town - itself having peppered prices. You would want to book well in advance since it gets booked out by American youngsters etc. Its clean, has a lovely breakfast and terraces where you can in the evening admire the view and drink some red wine. The girls at checkin speak an almost too native American English. Caveat: you will get kicked out from 11am til 5pm for "cleaning", but you want to be somewhere else admiring the area during this period anyways.

• Villa Nettuno. It's clean and low-budget, with spectacular views of the sea. A brother and sister run the place, and if you're lucky, you'll even meet their mother. The entrance is hard to find, but once you see the little sign, you'll climb up several flights of narrow stairs. If you go in spring, you'll take in the intoxicating aroma of wisteria along with the unforgettable views. The place gets a little spooky late at night, but that only adds to its charm.

• Conca d'oro Hotel opened in 1949 from an idea of Giovanni Cappiello. An ancient villa in the middle of a beautiful garden full of orange and lemon trees surround the hotel today, as in the past, guests love the setting of the hotel. The Villa Giacinta is operated by this hotel, and is a beautiful (if expensive) option for traveling groups. The villa contains 4 bedrooms (3 doubles and one twin-sized), ~4 bathrooms, a large foyer and living room, and a comfortably-sizd kitchen (great for cutting down on expenses in this expensive tourist town). Additionally, there are tiled porches at the front entrance and off the master bedroom and small balconies with great views in some of the other bedrooms. The Villa is cleaned daily, and the cleaning staff are friendly, nice, and deliver fresh figs to the kitchen in summer! The villa is rentable through www.summerinitaly.com, which is a helpful English-speaking website for foreign tourists to Italy. Be warned, though, that both the villa and the Hotel Conca D'Oro are a 15 minute very steep walk to and from the beach/port, and parties with elderly visitors or children may be better off near the beach.

Get out

• Take the local bus to Monte Peruso where you leave at the church. From there you need to find a small steep path uphill. The mountains along the Amalfi Coast have a hidden and unknown network of public footpaths and long stairs criss crossing the lemon teraces, from Monte peruso you will be able to walk to Santa Maria, a small church high up, and back down to Positano. This will give you stunning views down the coast featuring Capri, Positano and the sea. In springtime all sorts of rare spices and flowers grow between cypress trees. Make sure you get a map of some kind showing the footpaths since you WILL get lost without.

Julian Tippett has published a nice walking guide book for the area in the "Sunflower Countryside Guides" series.

• Visit nearby Herculaneum and Pompeii.
• Climb the Mount Vesuvius
• Visit Paestum
• Visit Naples
• Visit Capri
• Visit Ischia an island outside Naples.

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