Ma vie en rose…: A must see in Italy

In our way to the south of Italy we drove along the Amalfitana Coast. Everybody told us is something to be seen in Italy and as it was anyway in our way to our final destination: FAR SOUTH we said we should give it a try.
Personally I have never thought man can build such amazing roads, but if someone j\knows how to do it than Italians sure do. The coast streches for 50 km along the sea and it is build at 100-150 m above the sea level and technically above the sea. It is practically suspended hanging over the blue waters and some huge villas of some rich Italian kamikaze (I would say). The Italians do enjoy to climb and build houses nowhere, but necessarily close to the sky.

It is simply splendid, only sea, blue skies and narrow sinuous road. The small towns along the road are crowded but very cozy and similar to those in Croatia and Greece as far as I 've seen in the pictures.

Here and there there are merchants near the road selling souvenirs and oranges and lemons directly from the trees. Anyway they really have a special taste...not like the ones in Romania.

Here is where I've seen the biggest lemons ever...a melon size. You eat one in a week or so I guess. The funny thing is that all the fruits are very expensive even if they don't pay any transportation fees. But they worth all the pennies.

The road trip was longer than we expected because of the road's narrowness and the fact that one should stop and let the bus pass or otherwise jam the traffic. Horrible to be a bus driver on those roads.

Here is a piece of the famous coast

These places are a really impressive piece of engineering and a gift of nature for the lazy Southern Italians...heheheh...not all of them...only the ones we met.:) But otherwise very nice people. To be political correct the are relaxes or working challenged people. Luckily they have tourism in the South.

Our Amalfitana Coast trip ended in the city of Salerno...a sort of Cluj-Napoca but with seaside. From here to Vibo MArina, the small town which will be our host in the South for one week we drove only on the highway. Spectacular! We drove through the mountains, near the sea and crossed thousands of tunnels. Italian are obssessed to prove how good they are in climbing the highway as high as possible.