Honeymoon in Italy - Day Three (Amalfi Coast)

Breakfast at Hotel Napolitano

We woke up to (what we thought would be) a totally promising day filled with excitement as we were leaving stress town - Napoli (because its full of pick pockets apparently) and heading to our highlighted honeymoon destination - Amalfi Coast.

Little did we know....


We bought a bus ticket like the day before (€1.20 per tix), but this time we took a bus in the opposite direction. We boarded the bus, still very worried about pick pockets and our belongings. Did I mentioned that they have a weird ticketing system in Italy? You need to stamp your ticket at some machine in the bus to validate the ticket when you board the bus. Did I also mentioned that we were lugging around super heavy luggages while being worried about caring for our valuables? So yeah...we boarded the bus with the tickets, but because we were so busy trying to find a safe spot to stand in the crowded bus with all that luggage, we didn't stamp the tickets. I repeat, we DIDN'T stamp the tickets. We observed that nobody did either, so we thought it was okay to do the same. Then, as luck would have it, two guys boarded the bus to check on tickets....


Damn. In my head, I was already going through my tourist dialogue and I'm just gonna insist that I didn't know that we had to stamp those tickets. We showed our tickets to them. They just looked at us, then proceed to check on other tickets. The thing is, they didn't return our tickets and they started eyeing each other. Me and hubby thought we were safe from trouble...until we reached the terminal. Then everyone started getting off, these two monkeys collecting the ticket cornered us and started telling us that we did not validate our tickets. So I told him we were tourist and we didn't know cause nobody told us and we didn't see anyone doing that. He showed me how to validate one ticket then proceed to tell us that we had to pay a fine for the other one. The fine was €41.20. Damn...the ticket was barely a fraction of that!



Hubby had all the money with him, he just started making a move for the wallet and wanted to pay them. I was boiling with madness. He didn't even protest or put up a fight. I just kept telling the two monkeys we weren't going to pay for that crazy amount. Then one of them took out a police badge to frighten us. He said if we didn't pay up, he was going to bring us to the police station and God knows what else he said. Hubby didn't want trouble, so he just paid them the money. I was seriously SOOOOOO mad I could burn a house down....


Me and Nic were barely talking after that. We took a train to Sorrento (€4 per tix). It was super crowded on the train. Alot of tourists and locals were going to Pompei for a famous sight seeing spot. Some volcano I think. We didn't go cause it would've taken up too much of our travel time.



Super angry Nic - still mad from what happened about the ticket fine


Anyway, we made up during the train ride. Its difficult to be mad at each other when you are travelling. Especially when everyone else around you are in super happy mood. We took a Sita Bus (€7 per tix) just across the road of the Sorrento train station. We were gonna stay at Al Pesce D'oro at Amalfi. The bus ride was the craziest! It was super winding roads and many a times it was narrow too. We were standing in the bus and every time it took a turn, our hearts took a dive.

This was a glimpse from the bus ride along the coastal area...

We finally reached our B&B - couldn't wait to check in and have lunch after the whole morning of drama.

The corridor leading to our 'Margherita' room

Balcony area overlooking the coast

One small room which we used for our luggages

Our B&B for 3 nights

This shower had moments of cold shower off and on - it is also not advisable to sing in the shower cause the staircase leading to the Al Pesce D'oro restaurant was just outside...

Finally lunch! Yummy parma ham with mozzerella cheese and capers

Pouring some chilli olive oil into his seafood risotto

Lost?!

We took a long walk to Amalfi Town after lunch. Was quite scary cause there were lots of blind spots on a narrow winding road where buses, motorcycles and cars were all driving like mad men. The weather was surprisingly chilly even though it was summer. I expected sun, sea, sand and lots of bikini clad tourists and locals, but that was nowhere to be seen...

The Amalfi sign

We spotted a beach area somewhere along our walk....but it was deserted...

Lots of lemon orchards along the walk too

I've never seen such a tight bunch of bougainvilleas!!

After the long walk, we headed back to our B&B for some dinner. I think our B&B is quite famous for its food as during the time that we stayed there, they always had a healthy crowd arriving for dinner. Al Pesce D'oro was a family owned business and they had a split level restaurant. Upstairs and downstairs was managed by different brothers but they shared the same staff.

Al Pesce D'oro Restaurant (upstairs)

Our first seaview dinner - some gigantic pizza (with 6 different flavors)

#1 - Margherita

#2 - Zuchinni

#3 - Rocket leaves and Tomato

#4 - Chorizo sausages with some local veg

#5 - Parma Ham

#6 - Chorizo sausages with some local veg....Wait~ Didn't I already post this one up? Opps...I must have lost #6 upclose or mixed it up cause the one with the green stuff all looked the same! (This would teach me to blog about something 3 months later :P)

Oh well, overall we had a great dinner. Super filling! Next - Day four coming up....