If you had time in Naples I would say you might want to also add the "underground" tour of Naples. But it's tough I know with your tight schedule. Looks like a great itinerary and I agree with all the comments. I love Ravello, the views are breathtaking. Buon viaggio!

Jill

Sounds like a wonderful trip! You are covering some marvelous area and during a great time of the year.

I noticed you said you were travelling back to Denver...Denver is my hometown - I grew up there before moving to Los Angeles in the mid '80s for work (entertainment business). From your sign-on name I thought you lived deep in the heart of... ;-)

Congratulations on your anniversary. I hope you have a fantastic trip!

Tiggy.

Dierdre,
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of the information and wonderful directions!

Hi Tiggy,
I was born and raised in Dallas and went to both undergrad and grad school at A&M, hence the name. We have lived in Denver for about 2 years now though, and we LOVE it. I miss being able to swim in April (we are supposed to get snow on Sunday here!), but I love being so close to the mountains. Thanks for the good wishes!

Reflections on the Amalfi-Ravello hike. Yeh the usual trail thru the valley is the main path, and i consider this one of the finest walks/hikes (at least going up it's a hike but if not into aerobic exercise inherently involved in a hike so steep, like the previous poster says it's much easier busing to Ravello and waltzing down to Amalfi - the ever pleasing vistas being the same going down as up - for most more pleasing going down - anyway this is a great hike. But i also found the hhike down thru the vineyards to Amalfi to be equally enthralling - i just went outside the ramparts enciricing Ravello and headed down on tiny paved lanes zigzagging thru the vineyards, passing by a quintessential Italian landscape of grape vines punctuated by fig and cypress trees, passing by vineyard workers tending their crops - anyway was most impressionable, and the deep-blue sea shimmering far below. So i recommend, your being so young and active, hiking up to Ravello and descending thru the vineyards. I started the vineyard descent with some trepidation as i didn't know if i could really get down, that the small path could end and i'd have to backtrack, but i just zigzagged down and came out to the main coastal road to Amalfi.

Re the hike to or from Ravello--forgot to add that there's a tourist office just off the grand palazzo, and there you can pick up a hiking map. There are loads of great hikes you can do around Ravello. (Nothing that would require more than sturdy walking shoes, too.)