{"id":360,"date":"2022-09-07T22:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T21:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seanmaddison.uk\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2023-01-20T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T11:09:18","slug":"day-29-getting-lost-in-the-amalfi-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanmaddison.uk\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/day-29-getting-lost-in-the-amalfi-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 29: getting lost in the Amalfi coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luis, Sebastian and I grabbed an early train from Rome to Naples to head down to our Airbnb in San Lazzaro near Amalfi&#8230; After a super fast train we switched to a replacement bus, then more buses and we quickly ended up on quite a different journey than planned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a trip! Croquettes in Santallamere waiting for the next bus, here it all gets funky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 30 minutes in, the second bus we got headed in a totally unexpected direction than Google told us, then we got off in the middle of nowhere to get the bus back to Gragnole(?) waiting for quote some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t trust map apps outside of major metro areas is the lesson here, ask locals! Always check with the bus driver where they are going ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After spending an hour or so asking for advice and trying to find a taxi cab, we decided to walk to a taxi place uphill (very up hill, zone 2 cardio definitely in for the day!) about half an hour away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We get there and the taxi place doesn&#8217;t exist anymore, being now a rough looking council estate just like where I grew up&#8211;stray dogs and all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A local butcher managed to communicate to us that the next bus was hours away, and our best bet was to hitch-hike (Luis &amp; Sebastian&#8217;native Spanish helped a lot with the Italian-only natives ?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sun starts to set and we&#8217;re lost, sweaty and stranded! Not too mention our phones are running low<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/seanmaddison.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wp-1662667984695.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hitchhiking attempt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually our lovely Airbnb host sent her friend to come pick us up! We were fully prepared to either sleep in the streets or walk 2 hours to San Lazzaro, but we really appreciated the ride and the guy showed us the places to go nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all dropped our bags off at  the gorgeous apartment (pics incoming) and went for pizza forno Al legna at a lovely place in the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, a very early night wooooooo! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/seanmaddison.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_20220907_174601_2893516494687109885983-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seanmaddison.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_20220907_174601_2893516494687109885983-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/seanmaddison.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_20220907_174601_2893516494687109885983-169x300.jpg 169w, 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