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Ravello is one of the towns along the southern side of the Amalfi coast, only a few miles (but about an hour’s drive) from Positano. It’s higher up in the mountains, which gives it a bit of a different feel from the other towns that we visited. We were totally shocked to discover that: a) there’s a whole network of small towns up there, and b) they’re not entirely inhabited by gnomes or, in fact, any other kind of mythical creatures. We spent the day there walking around the town and then doing a hike along a goat path to some of the even smaller ones nearby. Here are a few pictures of the church there, the view, the local health food store, and some of the nearby vineyards.

And here’s one of the “roads” that we spent a while walking along. Not only was it almost possible to almost touch both sides of the “road” by stretching your arms out, but it was two way and also served as a walkway between towns. Seriously.

And here’s a picture of the local entrant into the creepiness olympics. It’s hard to see, but what we have here is about a liter of some poor guy’s blood in a glass container, which is proudly (and disgustingly) displayed in an altar there. They even have a painting nearby of a woman kneeling beside a recently decapitated body, drying her tears with one hand while collecting a bit of spraying blood in a jar with the other. People are seriously strange.

And finally, here’s a picture of a local “don’t do that” sign, posted in the piazza. If anybody has any idea what the thing in the top middle means, please add a comment. And forget about writing “don’t kick tanks” either. That’s mine.