This is going to be more of a photo diary mixed with where to eat in Positano. We spent most of our time at our airbnb and Laurito beach, a smaller, more secluded beach. We spent a few hours in the central area of Positano and visited the shops.

Where to Eat

La Taverna del Leone

This is the restaurant that our airbnb host arranged for us to eat at. It was a quick 2 minute drive from our place but the roads in this area are a little dangerous to walk on. We started off our meals with cute pita hearts filled with chopped tomatoes. I wanted to get some seafood while in Positano so I asked if they had some form of shrimp scampi. They didn't have anything with garlic sauce so I tried out a tomato based sauce. It was a bit weird at first but I enjoyed it. After dinner my friends and I decided to share a chocolate mousse cake, it was SO GOOD.

Grocery Store - Tutto x Tutti

We were staying in a pretty remote location so going out for breakfast every day would have been a hassle. So on our first morning we went to the grocery store to get some breakfast staples - eggs, sausage, toast, apples and orange juice! We also picked up some bread and nutella + jam to make a lunch for the beach. We also got some hamburger meat so we could cook dinner that evening.

Da Adolfo

This is the restaurant that was on our beach. Funnily enough my aunt recommended this restaurant from me and said we'd have to take a boat from Positano to get there. Lucky for us we just had to walk down to our beach to go. I had pasta with garlic and olive oil and it was amazing! Rather than having a decadent dessert I opted for fresh strawberries. A nice change from all the chocolate and gelato I had been eating.

The day we ate there we decided to go to Postiano in the afternoon. This meant waiting until about 3:30 when their boats would start coming to bring diners back to Positano. It was a strange process. We had to walk on a freestanding dock and wait for a small boat to come. They didn't anchor it, they just came in with the waves and people got on the boat as fast as they could. We saw quite a few wipeouts the day before so I was nervous. Luckily I hopped on the boat with no problems! Then it was a quick 5 minute boat ride to Positano.

Ristorante La Pergola

We had dinner before leaving the center of Positano on our last evening. I wasn't feeling ambitious (or rich) enough to try out their weirder, more expensive seafood items so I went with pepperoni pizza instead. I finished off my meal with a lemon granita which brought me back to days of eating Dell's frozen lemonade at the beach in Rhode Island. Super fresh and tart, not something I usually like but for some reason I just love lemon slushies!

Photo Diary

On our second day by the sea we made our breakfast again, went down to the beach for the morning and had lunch at the restaurant on our beach, Da Adolfo. After lunch we hung out until their shuttle boat to Positano central came in to bring us over. It was quite a process to get on the boat, but I'll share that in my guide tomorrow. It's a rather amusing story. We then spent a few hours exploring the shops in the center of Positano and then took a bus back to our airbnb. Thank goodness we didn't have to climb the steps from the beach a second day!

I wore a dress I got for Christmas, trusty Ancient Greek Sandals and my new bathing suit! Unfortunately I didn't get a good photo of it, so this mediocre one will have to suffice. It's the only one where I don't look like a beached whale, haha. I swear the bathing suit is cute!

Dress: Max Studio, Bathing Suit: She Made Me 'Essential Crochet Swimsuit' (Net-a-Porter), Sandals: Ancient Greek Sandals 'Athena' (Gilt)

Positano was all about relaxation. On our first full day we had a much needed lie-in and then drove to the grocery store to get some breakfast food, lunch supplies and something for dinner that night. Once we got back we had a leisurely breakfast on the terrace, made sandwiches for the beach and headed down!

The only bad thing about our bnb was that we had to walk down (and then back up) almost 500 steps to get to the beach. But once there it was glorious. It was a small beach with an expensive hotel and beach restaurant attached and not many people were on the actual beach. We spent almost the rest of the day there and headed back up to our apartment to make burgers for dinner.

Swimsuit: Tory Burch 'Issy' Triangle Bikini (Net-a-Porter), Zebra Print Dress: Splendid (Net-a-Porter), Sandals: Sam Edelman c/o ThredUp, Sunglasses: Ray Ban 'Erika'

I bought this on super sale last December when I got a Christmas gift for a friend. It was only $30 (regular $375) and the moment I saw it I dreamed of wearing it on a seaside vacation; Greece or Italy, perhaps?! Lucky for me, I was already in the early stages of planning this trip. I got it in a small, but an extra small would have fit better since it runs large.

I wore it our first evening on the coast to go out to dinner. We stayed in an airbnb just outside the center of Positano and our host arranged for the owner of the restaurant we went to to pick us up and bring us home. Such service, haha! We arrived on Friday night and left super early on Monday morning to head to Rome.

Rosewood Jumpsuit: Twelfth Street by Cynthia Vincent (Anthropologie), Sandals: Sam Edelman c/o ThredUp

After Florence we took a train to Naples where we rented a car to drive to Positano. On the way we stopped at Pompeii to take in a bit more history. We intended to stop at a pizza place in Naples my aunt recommended on the way but it was only 11am and it was closed so we found a place on Yelp that was close to where we were. Sadly it wasn't very good and I was really looking forward to Naples pizza since it's supposed to be the best. Oh well. (I also didn't really care for Naples in general from the ~30 minutes we were there. It's like a way more sketchy, dirty and smelly New York City. But NYC is awesome. But I can't fully judge after a half hour.)

Top: eight sixty, Shorts: Banana Republic (Clinton Crossing), Sandals: Ancient Greek Sandals 'Athanasia' (Moda Operandi),  Sunglasses: Ray Ban 'Erika'


My friend is the master of taking a ton of pictures before the actual picture, so here's an amusing action shot of me jumping up onto the wall.

And here are some photos from Pompeii. Truly spectacular. It's amazing how much survived and is still standing. I was mesmerized by all the frescoes on the remaining walls. Some of the colors were still so vivid!