Amalfi The colors are the first thing. You see them from the road above before you have descended to the beach, the red and white cutting through the blue of the water in a way that makes the whole scene…
italian summer
A Day on Spiaggia Grande – Positano
Positano, Amalfi Coast The alarm was unnecessary. By seven, the light had already found its way through the shutters and laid itself across the floor in long warm strips, and I was awake before it arrived, which is how most…
Victoria’s Complete Guide to the Amalfi Coast
Costiera Amalfitana, Campania, Southern Italy There are places that change you slowly, over many visits, and there are places that change you the first afternoon. The Amalfi Coast belongs to the second category. You arrive by boat or by road,…
Amalfi Heat
Victoria arrives on the Amalfi Coast in the full heat of summer, among lemon groves and blue water. A travel diary from Victoria Van Der Berg.
Love Letters in the Valle de Ferriere
The path begins before you expect it to. One moment you are still on the road above Amalfi, and the next the road has ended and something older has taken its place: a track of stone and root, wet where…
