Casa Primo Sole: August 16th, Amalfi Coast and the resurection of the fisarmonica

Wow, crazy day today!
As usual i suppose, we spent the morning and early afternoon on the Amalfi Coast. We began about 45 mins from the village on the coast in Salerno and continued the drive from there to Naples. We stopped in Positano for lunch and souvenirs after almost 2 hours of braving the winding roads along the coast. Dad was a trooper! We had to stop many times to let large tour or city buses go by since although it is a two way 'highway' of sorts, it can really only fit about 1 and a half cars since cars also park along the side of the roads into the cliffs. There are ofcourse a constant stream of scooters and vespas as well. This is definately the way to go here. If was difficult to stop at all because of the people and roads but if we were on vespa's we could stop anywhere...well almost anywhere. At points, there wasn't room for the pedestrians who were trying to get to the beach (500 steps down!). If ever you have the experience to visit the Amalfi coast, even for an short time; go! I've been to many places and see many pictures of this coast but when you're there it really does take your breath away. Everything is built on top of the next right into the side of the mountains that are crazy huge and the bright colour are piercing. Alongside of the coast at many locations there are lemon trees everywhere (to make the tasty limoncello i think!). After a hot afternoon and briefly getting lost on the way home we finally got back to the village and Maria made us dinner! yeah Maria! It was one of the family's favorite (well the italian side of my family...i don't think dad and ash loved it too much.) I did though...i forget the name of it now...pizza...something...... (help me mom or zia) anyway, it is kind of a cornmeal pizza that is placed on top of greens (like chard and rapini) then you smoosh the two together and eat away!!!! If that wasn't enough, we also had a tasty bowl of pasta and wine ofcourse!
Later that night we went up to see Miliuccio at the restaurant and nonno got out the accordion to seranade the bar! Check out the video:
http://www.youtube.com/user/VideoShields
My dad just had this accordion restored (and i lugged it onto the plane). It was originally bought here in Italy and then when my nonno immigrated he brought it to Canada with him. He was the accordion guy of the villages (like Achile today!). People always tell us stories of him playing at parties or events and how awesome he was. Legend has it that he used to play and dance the tarentella at the same time holding the accordion over his head.