Minori has been a great place for us to spend a week in Italy. If we never go back to Positano again, I’d be perfectly fine with that. But never returning to Minori would make all of us incredibly sad. We’re truly blessed to spend a week here.

I’ve written a lot about Minori over the past two trips, but here’s some random observations that should be noted:

1) Many of the tween girls carry small backpacks at night. All kids have phones, but I’m super curious as to what else is in these mini backpacks. The teenage girls don’t seem to carry them.

2) The man purse is definitely a thing here. In brown leather.

3) We have only seen one topless woman at the beach this week. Totally surprising compared to our beach experiences in Spain and Forte de Marmi, Italy.

4) All over Minori there are black and white laminated posters on display commemorating Minori’s past. For example, this is a picture of Minori’s concert band founded in 1863.

5) Closing the shutters at night greatly reduced the sound resulting in a better night’s sleep.

6) Every night there have been fireworks up and down the coast. Usually around 11:45p each night. We’ve seen them in Maiori (which we can see from our balcony), Marmorata, and twice we’ve heard them from the other side of Ravello, likely in Amalfi.

7) In chatting with Andrea, the owner of Bar Antares where we had our morning espresso, he makes approximately 300 cups of espresso a day…it depends on the day!

8) The water is clear, without seaweed, and haven’t seen a single fish. The shore is comprised of small pebbles that bake in the sun. Ten feet from shore the pebbles are gone and the sea floor is fine black sand.

9) I wish I could stay awake to be a part of the nighttime scene here, but by 11p/12a I am exhausted. Last night, as in every night, the dance music and singing went on until the wee hours of the morning.

10) Supermarkets: nothing is as cold here as it is at home. The eggs aren’t refrigerated, we buy milk and it’s relatively warm to the touch. The peaches and apricots have been delicious

11) Fishing is still big industry here, and each morning we’ve watched the men prepare their fishing lines for the day.

12) Passeggiata – the traditon of strolling after a meal. People watching and walking up and down the main street or ocean promenade is as much of a thing here as we’ve seen in other Italian communities. The old nonnas walk arm in arm, there’s usually a gaggle of tween girls with back packs, overtired babies being pushed in strollers, and tween boys are usually at one end playing soccer or some form of tag running through the small alleyways off the main street. It’s a great scene.

We wrapped up the day with dinner at a nearby restaurant where Miss M had mussels with slices of amalfi lemon, and the rest of us ate n’underi (the local dumpling we had the other night.) Gelato at Sal de Riso and then we called it a night.

All together, it’s been a fun and relaxing week. We believe Minori is a true gem of the Amalfi Coast and it will always have s special place in our hearts. We’re on to the region of Puglia tomorrow.