Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Honeymoon in Italy - Day Four (Amalfi Coast)

We didn't have to set a time to wake up for once in those four days! What a nice day indeed :)



Our breakfast at Al Pesce D'oro B&B - Some kinda hard biscuit / bread with a selection of jams, butter or nutella



Warm crossaint with icing sugar powdered over

Our favourite fruit platter! (The waiter asked if we wanted it with lemon juice and sugar, we thought it was kinda weird to have it that way but figured out that must be the way the locals enjoy their fruits, so we opted for the lemon but skipped the sugar cause we are healthy like that :P)

After that we took a Sita bus to Amalfi Town. Its kinda a small town area where most tourists would hang out cause there are loads of shops which sells souvenirs there. While we were at the town, we sort of figured out that lemon must be their famous produce. Almost every souvenir was with a lemon logo on it and they had all sorts of lemon products - liqueurs, soaps, sweets, risotto (I bought that for my brother and he said it was yums!) and loads more...


Look at the size of their lemons! The middle ones are huge!! Almost as big as my head...


I think this was the local veg they put in our pizza the day before


Some random fountain....



But look closer...there are little figurines placed all over! How cute~


Posing in front of Amalfi Cathedral (there were other better looking photos, but I just like this one best...Hehe)


Different angle of the Cathedral...


View from the Cathedral...its really quite a small town....


Look at the solid metal used for the Cathedral's door!


The bell tower


Enjoying the al fresco style dining with his plate of cannelloni


This was what hubby was looking at....


My lunch - lasagne (Wanted salmon with penne but they ran out of it...boohoo*)


Lemon cake - which was almost forced on us by the most aggressive waitress ever! But hubby liked this waitress alot (ahem* she is probably late forties, not young girl :P) cause she was very convincing and had a 'flair' to waitressing. We even gave her a tip cause we were that impressed.


Don't let the outside of the cake fool you - It really is a lemon cake - A very yummy one too....


We bought some stamps and a postcard to write to my in-laws - This is proof of postage, just in case the postcard never arrives....


Random view of the coast near Amalfi - But you really need to be there in order to 'feel' the moment


Went back to Al Pesce D'oro for dinner - I ordered vongole


Tomato and Onion pizza on the house....


Nic ordered fish from the second course - They actually presented the whole fish to him before they set it aside and de-boned the thing into what you see in this picture

Let me explain abit of their menu. This is from my own observation, so it might not necessary be right. They had a menu consisting Appetizers, Main / First Course, Second Course, Desserts and as for drinks, they usually will ask if you would like water, then offer you some wine to go with your meal, and when you are done with dessert, they will offer you some coffee or liqueurs or aperetifs. Their appetizers will have the usual salad and finger food. Main or first course usually consists of pasta or pizza. Second course will offer you meat stuff or fish. I'm sure dessert needs no introduction, dessert is dessert. We usually are quite full with just a main course alone, but the locals there can really eat! We've seen most of them order from the menu A to Z - meaning every single course I've just mention, they will have something from it! *gulps* Amazing appetite....


Anyway, back to food - we also ordered croquettes - super fluffy and yummy!


They were unusually generous that night - Limoncello (lemon liqueur) on the house


We were quite worried about how our bill would turn out like during our stay at this B&B, cause we keep putting the meal tabs to our room. I don't think they usually have that practice but they were being very accomodating when we requested for it. But hubby said its our honeymoon...so chill~


Okay...chilling....next up day trip to Capri!

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