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Today, there were lots of knowns & unknowns. We had to return the car at the airport.\u00a0 Easy, google maps is a godsend.\u00a0 I dropped mom off at the airport and got all our luggage out of the car and I found a place not far from the entrance where she could sit while I went to return the car.\u00a0 Unknowns\u2026where were we to return the car?\u00a0 They had lots of signs that said Car Rentals, but nothing about Returns.\u00a0 But I kept following the Car Rental and finally, there it was\u2026a sign that said Car Rental Returns. Simple and easy. Followed the steps and walked back to mom, dropped the key in the after hours box at Alamo and we were off to our train. Again, a wonderful trip down to Naples. And was the train amazing\u2026they even had a portable Cappuccino machine!<\/span><\/p>\n We found a taxi to take us to the Ferry – what a wild ride – no different than 50 years ago\u2026they still drive as crazy as it was all those years ago.\u00a0 It took a while to find the ferry terminal & which ferry was ours, but in the process we made several new friends.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mom met a group of guys from Greece – who called themselves the hooligans. Mom loved their excitement and fun! Waiting helped us to get to know others, we buddied up with a couple Chris & Lisette from Los Angeles. They had been married 10 years and mom found out she had a little 5 year old girl.\u00a0 There was frequent talking along the way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It turned out they were going to Positrano, another small village about the size of Amalfi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I didn’t realize we were stopping before we got to Amalfi, but that was ok, turns out we had to switch ferries there. We said goodbye to Chris & Lisette and we were off.\u00a0 Finally, we were amazed. We were told it wasn\u2019t far to our hotel\u2026and they were right\u2026really only 2 minutes from the pier\/dock.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, we located our hotel and were amazed at how it was tucked between two souvenir stores.\u00a0 We were thinking\u2026 is this really our hotel?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But when we stepped inside and realized how stunning it was and when they showed us to our room\u2026just look at what we saw\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n And here\u2019s what the restaurant for breakfast and its outside patio was like.\u00a0 You can see by the last image It sits out over all the shops to provide this spectacular view.<\/span><\/p>\n That night we ate at a small restaurant at their outdoor cafe and had two wonderful Italian dishes, wine\u2026and a dessert I heard about on a food show by Stanley Tucci called Lemon Delight. A cream filled pastry covered in lemon cream made from lemons from the Amalfi coast that have a particular flavor only found here in Amalfi.<\/span><\/p>\n But before we got back to the hotel, we stopped for some Gelato.\u00a0 The first night was difficult for dad, there was a lot of partying going on in the small square or round about with a fountain in the middle of it\u2026until wee hours of the morning.\u00a0 Eventually, some time after 2:30 it began to be quiet.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, there were lots of knowns & unknowns. We had to return the car at the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/fonh.com\/sacruise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-IMG_7997-train-to-amalfi-300x267.png\")
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