2025 April 8,9: Agerola

We have arrived on the Amalfi Coast. Actually a small community in a valley 600m (2000') up a 1000m bluff that runs the approx. 50 mile length of the coast from Salerno to Capri Island.

The thinking was this: we could spend n clams to stay in Amalfi or Positano or Sorrento, at sea level, or n/2 clams to stay on top of the bluff somewhere in the middle, and spend n/2 on a scooter. The strategy is working; the scooter is a gas.

The blow by blow on day 1:

Took a ferry from Salerno to Amalfi:

Then a city bus from Amalfi to Agerola / San Lazzaro. The road is steep, narrow, many hairpins up the side of a 45deg slope:

When busses meet each other:

Our host picked us up at the bus stop and drove us up to the apartment. An incline for about 1km, the last 100m of which is literally on a 30 degree angle. We would not have made it on foot with our two 20kg bags:

The place is interesting. A main room with the bed and a couch, and a bathroom off to the side. Then you go outside into a courtyard, and into a separate, adjacent building, to the kitchen. The courtyard and kitchen have a beautiful view out across the valley to the sea in the distance:

The town is (still) kind of a farming community - lots of small vegetable plots, some goats, horses, cows. A central square with a nice cafe, a few grocery markets, other misc. Feels ‘real’, unlike the 100% tourist hubs of the better-known places at sea level. The grocery store and cafe people know us after a couple of days, always a smile and the few words of Italian we know (btw we’re doing Pimsleur Italian, thanks LES, it’s great!).

Couple shots of the town - Agerola / San Lazzaro:

Our trusty steed:

Tomorrow: Path of the gods…