LIFE UNLEASHED

From Rome we headed south to the much heralded Amalfi Coast.  We spent a couple of days in the tiny and heavily touristy town of Positano which spirals  down the cliffs towards beach.  It was nice (ok, REALLY nice:)) but we kept looking up and thinking; “I wonder what the views would be like from up there?”  Up there was the tiny village of Nocelle perched on a cliff top some 300 meters straight above Positano.  We booked into a fantastic little B&B (www.villadellaquercia.com) and had a view all the way up and down the coast from our balcony.  No tourists, no vehicles, just peace and quite and our great view. 

We had heard rumours from fellow travellers about a great hike starting from Nocelle called the … Degli Dei (walk of the Gods).  Now here was the view you could die for…quite literally.  The walk clung to a narrow cliff face with a sheer rock wall on one side and a long drop on the other.    Clouds drifted by, birds flew around below you and you could see for miles.   At a few points it was Vertigo inducing because of the peripheral vision of the ocean so far below.  At other parts of the walk it would wind into gullies where you could get a break from the blistering sun in a cool grotto. 

There are time’s traveling that you have to stop and think …”Man, am I lucky”. 

This was definitely one of them.