Go out on the pier in Amalfi and catch a launch to the pebbly Santa Croce Beach. Lounge chairs are for rent, and the two restaurants serve up excellent mussels and local white wine.
Metro del Mare; Amalfi; www.metrodelmare.com
Tags:beach | family | cruise | tour | outdoors
Sunbathe in Capri
Capri's most beautiful place to sunbathe and swim is the La Fontelina bathing establishment. It's a hike down from Capri town's lovely Piazzetta, but beach chairs and mattresses are available for rent in view of the Faraglioni rocks.
Località Faraglioni; Capri; 011-39-081-837-0845
Tags:beach | family | hiking | outdoors
The Amalfi Drive
This 30-mile, serpentine coastal road from Sorrento to Amalfi is only for the most confident of drivers – be sure to listen for honking: that means a local bus is about to round a blind corner. The drive between Amalfi and Ravello is similarly vertiginous.
Sorrento to Amalfi; Amalfi
Tags:family | road trip | view
Hike to Ravello
The challenging hike through the Valley of the Mills from Amalfi to Ravello is lined with lemon trees and passes the remnants of an 18th-century paper mill and a swimming hole fed by a spring waterfall.
Amalfi to Ravello; Ravello; 011-39-081-808-9613; www.giovis.com/Egiovis.htm
Tags:family | hiking | outdoors
Montepertuso
The relatively easy hike from Positano to Montepertuso (hole in the mountain) is made up of steep stairways; the reward is the world's best ravioli at Donna Rosa.
Donna Rosa; 97-99 Via Montepertuso; Montepertuso; 011-39-089-811-806
Tags:family | culinary | hiking
Graze and people-watch
The human parade is entrancing any time of the day or night, so get an outdoor table or wander with a gelato cone through the piazzas in Amalfi, Capri, or Ravello, or along Positano's beachside promenade.
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