Positano... a gem!

Right now we are enjoying the sun at a beach club in beautiful Anacapri. I finally have time to write about Positano. We woke up in Venice at the crack of dawn to meet our water taxi to the airport. Private water taxi was the only choice for transportation at that hour. We paid $120 for a 25 minute ride! It was so beautiful to be on the water at that hour though, so I'm trying to think of it as a treat! We got to the airport for our Easy Jet flight. We were so excited about our low fare of $44 each until we found out our bags cost the same amount! $44 each! Oh well! It was a quick one hour flight to Napoli. Our driver Gernermo met us and off we went in his little black Mercedes. He gave us a great tour during the hour plus ride into Positano! We were thrilled to see our charming and beautiful hotel, Albergo Savoia! The views were gorgeous! If you ever go, ask for room 302. We had another corner room with two windows and two different views! Spectacular! We were starving, so we put on bathing suits and headed out for lunch to one of the places on my list - le Sirenuse. It was much fancier than I expected, but the views were insane! We were greeted by a gentleman in a white tuxedo. "Do you have a reservation?" "No." "Are you a guest of the hotel?" "No." "You sit here," he said pointing to a table toward the back. We were most definitely not in the first row overlooking the town and sea, but amazing nonetheless! That lunch was one of our most expensive meals so far!  So much for my list! We made our way to the beach and finally enjoyed the sun under those famous orange umbrellas! Our beach guy was another Gernermo and found us chairs on the waters edge. It was so strange to be on a rock beach- no sand at all. John swam, but too cold for me! Dinner was a light picnic of cheese, salami, bread and wine. The next day we were up early, had our breakfast of pastries and were ready to hike The Path of the Gods. We had been looking forward to this for a long time! It's a path along the top ridge of several of the areas mountains. We took a city bus to the town of Nocelle. We hiked/climbed/scaled UP about 4 or 5 miles to the town of Priano. Once at The Priano marker we had to go down about 1200 steps! In total we walked about 4 hours. The sights along the way defy description!  One of my favorite sights was when a man and his three do lies came right up the steps we were going down! We kept wondering how people got what they needed in the mountains and now we know! The donkeys had big silver crates on their backs. We watched the man unload a bunch of stuff on a bench and then head on. I guess someone will be by to pick up his delivery! My legs were shot, but before they completely froze up we were lucky enough to catch a bus back to Positano.we showered and collapsed in our beach chairs.  We had read about a great restaurant called Cera una Volta. It's so high up that they send a car to pick you up. The car picked us and two other couples up, we had another fantastic meal looking down on Positano. The next morning we slept late. We were packing up when I heard a band. I looked off the balcony to see a marching band coming down the winding streets! These streets are already packed with people cars and buses, and now came a parade! No one was mad about the traffic; everyone was delighted! Only in Italy! We spent a few more hours on the beach, then caught our ferry to Capri.