Ravello Steps

Dear Charlie and Polly,

We have spent one entire day in Ravello, and it has been wonderful! This has to be the most relaxing place on earth.

Today, I thought I would tell you a bit about where we are staying. We chose this place because it had two things we knew we wanted - a beautiful view and a garage. We remembered from the last time we were here that parking places are very difficult to find. This is a picture of our front door. Most of the houses look very plain from the front, because the back of the house (with the view) is most important. Would you believe by looking at this picture that the house is actually on FOUR levels. And guess what that means? Steps - lots of them! Eighty-one to be exact, from the garage to the bedroom!

There are winding steps. These go up to the top floor where there are four bedrooms and a bathroom. The main floor has the living and dining room, the kitchen, and two bathrooms.

There are wooden steps. These go down to a lower level which has another living area, the laundry room, and another bedroom.

There are marble steps. These steps go the garage, but at the bottom of the steps there is something mysterious.

Two locked doors. Hmmm, I wonder what's behind them? Any guesses?

But the back of the house is the best part! First there is a wall of jasmine blossoms. The smell is unbelievably delicious!

This is the terrace off the second level (the level above the garage). It is the largest terrace and has a beautiful area completely enclosed in grapevine.

In this picture you can see the top three levels of the house from the back. The terrace on the middle level opens out from the kitchen and living room, the top terrace opens out from the upstairs bedrooms.

No matter where you are in the house, this is what you see!

Sunday was a very lazy day! We walked up hundreds of steps to get to the town square where we had lunch.

We wandered around town after lunch when out of the blue we heard people singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".

 

It was an American group singing on the church steps. Next they sang "Stand by Me".

 

It was delightful!

There are paths just like this all over town, and a lot of the time they are the only way to get from one place to another. Most of the streets in town don't even allow cars, so it is very much a "walking" town.

At dinner time we climbed many, many steps until we arrived at this beautiful restaurant.

Our table was the one in the middle in this picture. This restaurant is on the other side of Ravello, so the view here was different from the one at our house but every bit as beautiful.

I will write more tomorrow. We love and miss you both very much!

Sweetie and Doc

 

 

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