Sunday, June 25

Amalfi Coast, Italy

amalfi region.

potato pizza: carbo.. carbo.. carbo carbo-CAMEEELIIILLIIAAA..

en route to sorrento from siena, we arrived at the rome central bus station. i got my pizza fix from a fast food pizza chain outlet called the pizza chef. topped with julienned potatoes which made for a german-swiss rost, i highly doubt the italian authenticity of my potato pizza with thyme but it was tasty enough.

sorrento 23rd-26th june



sorrento was our base in the south of italy where we stayed for three nights.

the horse-drawn carriages and vertically-challenged shophouses reminded me of new orleans in louisiana and i found sorrento rather interesting, albeit being tourist-packed..

food-wise, two places stand out: red lion and primavera.

although red lion appears to be a tourist trap, it has great fod at bank-account-friendly prices. on our first night, i had the marinara pizza and van had the mussels with black pepper.

for lunch the next day, i had grilled sworfish and van completed her mussel-quota for the year by ordering the mussels soup.

primavera has amazing gelato flavours that you could normally find iwthin the chocolate section in supermarkets.. kit kat, mars, snickers, nestle white chocolate and at least three friggin types of kinder flavours- kinder bueno, kinder cereal and kinder bueno max.. remember the bright as highlighter-pens-coloured bread ice cream that we have in singapore.. they do it here too in primavera with brioche. repeat after me: seeing is boring for tasting is believing..

positano 24th june



leave your blahniks and choos at the hotel for this town is all about steps and apparently a highlight of this town is to climb down the numerous vertigo-inducing stairways. sadistic things that people do for fun.. myself included.

amalfi coast 24th june

a tip from vanessa's lonely planet guide took us to a family-run restaurant in the back alleys of amalfi coast. in fact, i am certain that the rest of customers there were led by same or similar sources.



vanessa's pasta.. as i am typing this a couple of weeks later, what this pasta dish contained, the type of pasta, the ingredients yada yada.. completely eludes me. the only thing i remember is peas were fresh, not canned. haha..



to relieve myself of pizza duties, i indulged in a hip-widening 'coastal' pizza of mozzerella, mussels, tuna, mushrooms.. it was sen-sa-tion-nal!

thereby activating thousands of salivation ducts



dessert- lemon magherita.. crumbly tarty biscuity pastry with intense lemon paste filling.. someone please hand me a thesauras.. i am running out of credible descriptions.. ARGHHH..

ravello 24th june

reputed to be a playground for celebrity artisits and getaway for hollywood starlets who need privacy to sort out their too-famous-too-handle issues..







that's all there is to ravello. really.

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