I'm Not Dead Yet!

Last weekend I was sans internet for four days while we went to the Amalfi Coast. It was delightful! The coast line is peppered with houses clinging to the cliff-sides which cascade down to the water's edge. The stairs in this place are... creative. None are parallel, and most are over 8 inches tall. After a hike up to the town of Ravello involving hundreds of stairs, I was suddenly grateful for building codes in the US which prohibit stairs with a rise over 7 inches. Despite the calf-killing hike, the view was breathtaking. Pictures and sketches do it no justice, and words cannot describe.

Back down in Amalfi, I did some watercolors. I got a few compliments, and had an interesting conversation with a man from Naples who spoke no English.

He asked what I was painting, and I pointed to my subject. He asked where I was from, and what I liked to do for fun. I said "sto studio architettura", and he pantomimed running, so I think I might have misunderstood his question, but it was a good conversation nonetheless. He told me to see the Duomo, and said something about a boat, and then left me sitting on the pavement.