Capri Positano Amalfi Coast Travel Italy Guide

 

POSITANO

Positano is a gourgeous little town perched on the Amalfi Coast in Southern Italy. Positano has become a prefered vacation destination of many ; the Moneyed Jetset, as well as everyday people looking for a splurge Dream Vacation, even if just for a couple days, The place is not cheap, which matters not to those with plenty of ready cash. To most it is quite expensive. Some look at as a splurge that's with the cost, while others may not have or want to spend the money to stay there, and will opt to stay in the much more affordable spots of Salerno, Sorrento, Minori, or Maiore furhter down on the coast and make a day trip or tow to Positano, Capri, Pompeii, and or Naples. You can take local buses or ferry boats to get from town to town, or private car if you have the cash.

We wish to help guide you to a great vacation in Positano, or anywhere on The Amalfi Coast, Sorrento, or Capri, no-matter what your budget is, whether you're a budget travel, you have plenty of cash and money is no option, or you fall somewhere in-between, which is the monetary segment that makes up most of the travelers in Positano, Capri, or anywhere on the Amalfi Coast. We'll give you the information and tools, to put together a "Great Time on The Amalfi Coast." So come with us, "It's La Dolce Vita Time." 

GETTING THERE :

You vsn Fly into Naples or ROme and make your way to the Amalfi Coast, by private car or by bus, or maybe traing frome Rome to Salerno, and then Ferry Boats from Salerno to Capri, or any town on the Amalfi Coast.

If you fly into Rome, you can either arrange for a private transfer to the AMalfi Coast, or take the Leonardo Da Vinci Express Train from the Airport in Rome into the Stazione Centrale (Train Station) in the center of Rome. When you arrive at the train station in Rome, you find out when the next fast Express Train to Salerno is, buy a ticket and wait for the train to leave. You take the train down to Salerno, which take only 1 hour and 15 minutes. 

When you walk outside the train station in Salerno, it's a short 4 block walk to the Marine Terminal where you can catch a ferry boat to whichever town you are going to : Amalfi, Minori, Maiori, Positanom or Capri. Or you can stay at a hotel in Salerno, and make it your base to Positano and The Amalfi Coast. 

Salerno is much more affordable than Positano, Amalfi, and other towns on the coast. You can take ferries to visit Positano or Capri for the day, and if you want to visit Naples, make your way to the trains station, hop on a train, and you'll be in Naples in about 50 minutes.

My favorite hotel in Salerno is the Hotel Plaza, which is right across the street from the train satation and 4 blocks walk to the Ferry Boat Terminal, making this hotel suoer convenient to use as a base for exploreing Capri, Naples, Pompeii, Positano and the entire Amalfi Coast of Italy. The Hotel Plaza is a wonderful hotel, that has lovely rooms at affordabel prices, with an excellent breakfast included in the price. Tell them Daniel (from New York City) sent you.

PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION

ROME to POSITANO - AMALFI

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From NAPLES AIRPORT

You can take a private car or Mini Van from the Airport to anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or Sorrento. Rome to Positano - Amalfi Coast, Naples or Sorrento.

If you are on a budget and want to take public transportation from Naples Airport to Sorrento or The Amalfi Coast, your first step is to catch an airport bus to the Central Train Station. At the Train Station in Naples, you go downstairs to catch the Circumvesuviana Train from Naples to Sorrento. If you're staying in Sorrento, make your way to your hotel. If you're going to a town on the Amalfi Coast, you catch a bus outside the Train Station. There are two options, the local Blue Sita Bus, which is cheaper, but much more crowded and sometimes much more dificult to get on. If you opt for the Local Sita Bus, you might have to wait on a long line, and it might take 30 minutes to an hour to get onto a bus.

Your better option is to take the Red Tour Bus, which cost more, but is worth the extra money, as you shouldn't have to wait more than 15 minutes to get on, it doesn't make as many stops, and it's far less crowded, more comfortable and pleasant to ride. It's worth the extra $10 ...

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HOTEL CASA ALBERINA  -  POSITANO

"We LOVE THIS HOTEL"

Since I first stayed at the Casa Albertina on my second visit to Positano, I have Loved this hotel. It's a beautiful little hotel, that though rated as 3 Star, it's more like a Luxury 5 Star Hotel. It's at a wonderful location in town, that affords beautiful views of Positano, and it's only a 1 minute walk to 

Da Vincenzo, one of Positano's best and most popular restuarants. And the Latteria, a little Positanese Italian Deli is just a couple hundred feet away, and makes some of the best most affordabel food in town.

We highly recommend staying at the Hotel Casa Albertina, if you are lucky enough to book a room they fill up fast, so "Good Luck" And tell them Daniel sent you.

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The HOTEL Le SIRENUSE

"One of The WORLDS GREAT HOTELS"

HOTEL Le SIRENUSE

Book a Room at Le SIRENUSE   "If You Can"

Yes, the Hotel Le Sirenuse is a World Class Hotel. It's a Perrenial Winner of a Spot in The Worlds 20 Best Hotels, Year After Year. If you have the Cash, "This is Your Hotel of Choice." It's absolutely Gorgeous. It occupies one of the Best Spots in all of Positano, with the most gorgeous views, beautiful public rooms, restaurants, bars, and more. Naturally the Service is 1st Class, and the rooms are beautifully appointed.

This is a Dream Hotel. Book a Room, if you are able to, the fill up fast !

La SCALINATELLA - CAPRI

La SCALINATELLA is Our Hotel of Choice on CAPRI

"We LOVE IT" !!! And so WILL YOU !!!

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HOTEL PLAZA - SALERNO

OUR TOP CHOICE AFFORDABEL HOTEL in The AREA

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Across The Street From The SALERNO TRAIN STATION

4 BLOCK WALK to FERRY BOATS to CAPRI - PSOITANO - AMALFI

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Hemingway Inspired Me to Wtite Daniel Bellino DBZ

HEMINGWAY

 

Yes, it was the great Ernest Hemingway who inspired me to write. And it wasn't just his great writings but the man and the life he led. For Hemingway was the ultimate Man's Man as they say. He was rough and tumble and didn't take crap from know one. A lady's man Ernest Hemingway was, a hunter, adventurer, traveler, writer, and mercenary. The man's life was even more interesting than the characters in his books. 

The first book I read by Ernest Hemingway was a required read in High School English Class when we were assigned to read and study The Old Man & The Seas, Hemingway's great classic novel of the old Cuban fisherman Santiago in Havana, Cuba and his fight and struggles to fight a great fish, a fight that mimics the struggles of life.

I read just about everything Hemingway I could get my hands on; all his novels, his short stories, and biography's and articles written on the great writer of prose. I read a Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises (my favorite), the complete short stories, magazine articles, and the bibliography "Papa Hemingway" by close friend and biographer A.E. Hotchner.

I traveled in the footsteps of Hemingway, going to his homes in Key West and Havana, Cuba. I bought a book called Hemingway;s Paris, and I followed in the footsteps of the great writer, going to all his favorite restaurants and cafes. I ate Choucroute at Brasserie Lipp on the Boulevard Saint Michel in Paris, I had drinks at Cafe Select and Closerie des Lilas, both on the Boulevard Montparnasse. I strolled the Luxenbourg Gardens, and at escargots and drank Beaujolais at Polidor, just like Ernest did. Yes I wanted to be Hemingway, I tried and tried, but I would never come anywhere near close to being the writer that Ernest Hemingway was. I could write nice little short stories, but a novel? No way. I have become a writer, I know, not a great one, not by a long shot, but a writer never-the-less, and a published and Best Selling Author at that, no less, but no Hemingway. But my writings do serve a purpose, and many do like (even love) my writings (books). I write about Italian Food, Italy, and the Italian, and Italian-American lifestyle and culture. I write little stories about Italian Food, Italian-Americans, Italy, and Italians, and people seem to like them.

Hemingway helped teach me to write, and I taught myself to write with the help of the great Ernest Hemingway and other writers. I't go to my favorite cafe in Greenwich Village, Caffe Dante, and I'd write. I'd write and write and practice as much as I could. I'd read and write, trying to hone my craft, the craft of writing. I dreamed of writing a great novel as all writers do. This would not happen. Who knows, maybe it will one day, but don't count on it. I don't, but you never know, someday my writing skills may one day develop enough to do so, "one never knows."

Before I ever started writing, I'd never known that I'd be able to write and have a book published, did I? I now have seven books published and three of them have become best sellers and I am a Best Selling Author, but not of novels. I wish I could write a great screenplay, that would be made into a successful movie, but as of now? No way, but I have had some good success and I'm quite happy the way things have developed. I make some money at it, I'm not rich, and I still have my day job, but I love what I do, and I am quite happy doing all this. Going to the cafe, just about every day, and I write, I promote, and I learn, all thanks to Hemingway, the man who inspired me. To write.

Basta.

  Daniel Bellino Zwicke  

 

Ernest Hemingway

  Part II   My 1st Book. My first book was La Tavola. How I wrote it, and how quick I wrote it was quite amazing. Of course I had always wanted to write a book, I started one called The Bachelors Cookbook, but I never finished it. I didn't have the tools, or a formula. After starting that first book, The Bachelors Cookbook was a cookbook to teach and help bachelors how to cook, but not only that. It was a book to teach bachelors (single men) how to cook, and subsist on their own, and how to save money by cooking and make life easier and more enjoyable for themselves. But there was another major angle to the book, and that was how to meet and romance women, by learning and knowing how to cook for them, and how by doing so would greatly enhance you chance of having romantic interludes and relationships with the opposite sex, women. Well I thought, that this was all great, and it was and is, and now that I'm reading this, and rehashing on this great idea of mine, and I now have quite a lot of experience, know-how and all that, that I think it's high-time that I do it. I now have the formula. The formula? What is it you ask? Well, I do have a very good writing formula to write and produce good non-fiction books. For me, non-fiction is a whole lot easier to write than fiction, which I know I'm not great at, but non-fiction is a whole other thing, and I do believe I'm pretty good at this, and my track record has proven so with 7 books, three of them Best Sellers. So back to my formula, what is it you ask? Well, the whole ting is to # 1 have a Theme of what you book is going to be about. For me, I write about food, travel, and experiences regarding these subjects and subject matter. I write mostly about food and to be more specific Italian and Italian-American Food and lifestyles. I'll think up a them, Sunday Sauce for example, and then building a book around this. Sunday Sauce is the famed Italian-American dish, also known as gravy, that Italian-Americans eat each and every Sunday all over America, and especially in the great Italian Americans enclaves of New York, Boston, New Jersey, Baltimore, Brooklyn, and other parts of the country that have Italian neighborhoods with a strong Italian population that includes business such as Italian Restaurants, caffes, Pork Stores, Bakeries, specialty shops, Italian Butcher Shops, and the like, necessary for Italian living.

When you have your theme, you need to make an outline with topics and sub-topics that pertain to the  main theme of the book. So with my book Sunday Sauce I had an outline that included such topics as Meatballs, the Pork Store, Pasta and other topics that pertained to Sunday Sauce, how to make it, the rituals around it. as well as stories and antidotes that tied into this main theme of the book.

Taking the topic of pasta, several sub-topics to pasta in my book Sunday Sauce were; Spaghetti Vongole (Clam Sauce), Spaghetti Meatballs, Tomato Sauce and other topics. Once I had my outline, I'd write one-by-one on each topic in the outline. Each topic was a chapter in the book and I'd knock them off one at a time. It was easy. Now I've had a lot of different experiences as far as Italian Food and cooking go. I have a great repertoire of recipes that are in my books, so I tell stories about the food, the dishes, I have my recipes that are included in the book, and my books are a collection of Italian recipes as stories of all the different dishes in the great repertoire of Italian Cuisine. And  a large part of all this is to inspired people to cook wonderful Italian dishes, and to bring friends and family together at the dinner table. This is what it's all about; cooking tasty Italian Food, eating with friends and family, and having wonderful times around the table. This is my passion, and that's a Key element . in all of this. if you have a passion, write about it, and it all should come together easily. And so this is how I do it all. This is how I've had seven books published, and I keep doing it. I enjoy it. I love it, and hope you will to. Good Luck.  

Daniel Bellino Zwicke

PS .. My 1st book was La TAVOLA  - Italian-American New Yorker's Adventures of The Table, and this is where I first discovered and created my formula for writing my books. 

Again, good luck to you all.   

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Stanley Tucci Favorite Pasta Spaghetti Nerano Recipe

 

STANLEY TUCCI

EATING HIS FAVORITE PASTA

SPAGHETTI NERANO

RECIPES

The FRANK METHOD

SPAGHETTI NERANO

Spaghetti Nerano is a favorite Pasta of Sorrento and The Amalfi Coast of Italy. It's a simply pasta made with Zucchini fried in Italian Olive Oil, and mixed with Spaghetti, some pasta cooking water, and grated cheese. The most popular cheese is local Caciocavallo Cheese from Campani, but Pecorino, and or Grana Padano, or Parmigiano Reggiano are used also, hwatever you have, just make sure that is good quality cheese as the cheese is what gives the dish much of its flavor.

This dish has become very popular, especailly with the insame interest in Positano, and the Amalfi Coast as one of the World's top vacation destinations and with the popularity of Stanley Tucci's popular Italian Food and Travel TV Show "Searching For Italy" on CNN.

Spaghetti Nerano was invented by Maria Grazia in the 1950s at her Trattoria in the town of Nerano

near Sorrento, Italy. The dish is served on Capri, in Sorrento, and all over the Amalfi Coast. 

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