2025 April: getting around

A word on getting around on the Amalfi coast:

Scooter.

The road to anywhere from Agerola is down the 2000’ cliff with lots of switchbacks. The views are incredible, the signs are descriptive. Here we are paused at a typical side-street intersection:

Early enough in the AM, it’s clear sailing, and beautiful. Here we are, starting close to the top:

The roads are narrow, often not wide enough to allow 2 mid-size cars to pass. So traffic can be slow, and can stop for intervals. With a scooter, the rule is, if there’s open space, you can go. So you can scoot around a lot of the jams.

The main thing: scooting is a gas. Here we are arriving at Piazza San Lazzaro in Agerola:

Here’s the t-intersection at the bottom of the Agerola cliff, where we stopped pretty much every day for a macchiato. A nice thing is they’ve got police out helping to direct traffic at the choke points:

Here we are entering Amalfi from the East:

…from the west:

…leaving to the east:

Coming home to San Lazzaro and the apartment up the steep hill:

BTW I learned a month or so before arriving here, you need an ‘International Driving Permit’ (IDP) to drive here. Fortunately there’re online services that can arrange them for you. …

A&B are Andrea & his dad Valentino. They’re race car drivers:

PS if you can’t manage a scooter for whatever reason, ride in style:

…and speaking of non-scooters, I think I mentioned, Agerola is a farming community. As such there are lots of work vehicles: