We were a little apprehensive about starting our cycling trip on the Amalfi Coast. As inexperienced cycle tourists, the pictures of narrow roads and steep cliffs looked intimidating. However, after reading other cyclist's blogs we were reassured that the roads were surprisingly well-graded and the drivers surprisingly careful.
Thankfully these reports turned out to be correct and after a single long climb out of Sorrento we cruised down onto the Amalfi Coast road with amazing views in both directions. We made it to Positano for morning tea and Amalfi for lunch.
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| Wished we could have spent more time in Positano, what a place! |
We found a backpackers in Atrani, just a few hundred metres around the coast from Amalfi. There's little to no camping on this part of the coast; there's very little flat ground to pitch a tent! We spent the afternoon exploring Amalfi and Atrani.
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| Amalfi |
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| View from our room in Atrani |
On to Salerno the next morning and as it was a Sunday we were constantly being passed on both sides of the road by hordes of cheerful Italian road cyclists, all crying "Boungiourno-GoodMorning-HowAreYou!!!!" as they flew past. Sarah noticed that out of the hundreds of cyclists we saw, there wasn't a single female rider. Do they cycle somewhere else? Or not at all? Who knows...
After a supermercato stop in Salerno we carried on for another 10km south through seedy, empty beach resorts until we reached our seedy, empty campground. First impressions can be wrong though, and we were treated to our first swim in the Med and a fiery sunset over the Amalfi Coast.
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| Keeping the food simple and fresh just like the locals |
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| Sunset over the Amalfi Coast from a beach south of Salerno |
- David
UPDATE: Today, a week after we were on the Amalfi Coast, we saw our first female road cyclist!
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