At one point or another, you have seen this destination right here.
Positano, Italy.
Most positively, one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
But does this Instagram sensation really live up to all the hype?
Let's find out here today.
I've always heard of the beauty of the amalfi coast, but this is it, guys.
We are on our way right now to positano.
I can tell you one thing there are a lot of cars coming down this road and it's not a very big one, but i can see why everyone flocks to this beautiful side of the world.
So we just passed through sorrento here and we're going to be basically following along this coastline around that bend, And just behind there should be Positano.
Unless it's moved, but it's probably still there.
I am just jaw dropped right now with the cliff sides, the beautiful winding roads.
It's time to start bleeding dry.
First expense of the day, parking is six euros per hour.
We have officially made it here to Positano.
It's a bit early to be saying this, but this is one of the most standout spectacular places I've ever seen.
Incredible little narrow alleyways and everything's so colorful.
There's beautiful purple flowers growing everywhere.
Yeah, I'm just curious to see what the experience of being here is.
It's not just about getting a beautiful Instagram photo, there's much more to it than that.
What do you think so far?
I think it's really beautiful, but it's very touristic and I don't like that.
But you gotta give it a chance, because we live in Bali, we love Bali, and Bali is the exact same.
Tourists don't always ruin a place, sometimes they bring more to it actually.
I like busy places.
So guys, this is why everybody comes to positano.
This whole beach line is known as positano beach, spagio grande spiaggia, but it's also known as positano beach.
It's actually a nice temperature.
Hey yeah, i like it very nice.
Not the gear, though.
Not the gear, And I just saw back there at the booth that renting a day bed 25 euros.
But the saving grace is, if you wanna be in the peasant class, one of the further back rows from the beach, you can actually save two euros and 50 cents.
Oh, but of course the towel's separate, five euros for that.
Hot shower is one euro 50, but if you wanna get the cold shower you can save a whole euro and just pay 50 cents.
Not sure if this qualifies as a pro tip here to Positano, But we did find a lot cheaper food just by leaving the beachfront, by walking no more than two, three minutes.
The prices went from like 25 to 28 euros per person minimum for a pizza and a drink to being more like 10 euros.
So it's a lot more affordable just by leaving the main beachfront.
Now is the pizza as good.
I'm not sure, but it's a lot cheaper.
So I'm happy with that, because everything here seems to be very expensive.
Today's Positano history lesson is brought to you by questionable Google searches.
So right in front of me is the Positano church and it's said that a band of pirates maybe Jack Sparrow opened interpretation basically had this virgin.
They took this virgin, they had her on the boat.
They were going to take her all the way out to sea to somewhere who knows where, and all of a sudden the winds just stopped.
There was nothing pushing the ship any further.
Pirates are like yo, where do we go now?
We got this virgin and we can't get out of here.
From there they started to hear a whisper.
Apparently, in Italian it means put her back or put her down, or something.
And so the pirates brought her back here to Positano.
And from there, the people who lived in Positano built a church in her honor.
And that's why this church is here.
By the way, it's called Santa Maria Suntanor Positano Church.
Close enough.
The Amalfi Coast is known for its lemons.
Shout out to whoever gave me this Instagram recommendation.
Paulina's Positana Bakery.
Very nice.
Lemon sorbet.
This was five euros.
What are you doing?
What are you doing, man?
It's illegal!
Police.
Okay, so we've now arrived at our airbnb and we're actually staying really surprisingly far away from positano to be exact, an hour and 10 minute drive to get here.
A very large apartment with two bedrooms is about 80 us dollars a night, so it's really cheap.
But the main reason we came back so quickly, without doing much in positano, is that we realized really quickly Positano is one of those spots that if you don't plan in advance, you're gonna be just one of the many tourists wandering around going to the same tourist spots that probably won't have very good food, probably won't have very good experiences, and you're just gonna be paying a lot of money for them.
So we wanna give it another shot tomorrow with a bit of planning.
We're gonna start on that right now so that we can get started for sunrise.
I'll see you guys in a few hours.
Four hours of sleep, but that's just show biz, baby.
Stop number one, right on the main road.
You guys have probably seen this bridge before.
It's incredibly beautiful and during the summertime people will typically come down here and sunbathe, but they've shut it all down.
There's three access points.
They've all been blocked off.
I think it has to do with loose gravel and loose rock, but we're gonna keep moving because we wanna get into Positano.
We got another 45 minutes to go.
We have arrived.
I just got ourselves a decent parking deal, relative.
I got a daily maximum of 35 euros by parking higher up.
Alright guys, welcome back to Positano.
And we've just arrived here down at Spaggio Grande.
Having a real grand time here.
Just gonna get a thumbnail for the video.
As you guys saw yesterday, the beach gets really busy throughout the day, but the nice thing is it's currently 9 am and it's actually not that bad.
There's no more than 100 people on the beach right now, and it's a pretty large area, so...
I guess an obvious tip to make the most of this area is just to get here early, and even by 9 am it's really hot outside and I'm ready to go for a quick swim.
Kirill and I just basically swam all the way across the beach to a little hidden area where there was absolutely no one.
It was so, so beautiful.
And the reason Kathy didn't come with us was because she got stung by a jellyfish probably no more than 20 minutes before.
And then when we swam all the way out there, He got stung by a jellyfish.
So that makes me the chosen one.
Jellyfish, do not mess with me.
Maybe we are the chosen ones.
You're the chosen ones.
Superpowers.
So now it's time to get some food.
One of the things we did this morning to save some money is we basically just had a croissant for breakfast.
A super, super light start to the day.
But now it's time to enjoy a really, really good meal.
We're gonna have some lunch right here at...
Restaurant Bucca di Bacco.
All right, guys.
So this is what we've got here.
We have an aperol spritz that the chef recommended.
We have limoncello, which is the traditional drink from positano.
It's like a hard liquor and it grows here in the amalfi coast well, lemons do and so naturally they made a liquor out of it.
Mamma mia, or no, mamma mia, mama mia.
It's nice.
I like it.
It's really not that strong.
It smells.
It's appropriately strong.
It tastes really fresh.
It actually tastes like a real lemon.
It's very, it's very fresh, like you said.
And this right here, what's an aperol spritz?
Anyways, i've heard of them yeah, me too.
Is it a european thing?
I think it's kind of bitter, tastes like tonic water with a little kick of like an orange, mandarin flavor and a bit of lemon.
I see why he recommended it.
I like that a lot.
It's not my personal preference, but it's good.
So this right here vegetarian appetizer Looks really good.
Perfect.
Well, he's the first one to have tried it, so.
Bellissimo.
Mamma mia.
Mamma mia.
What is mamma mia?
Mamma mia, my mother.
My mother.
But do you use it for... Yes, like when you see something beautiful, oh my god.
Oh my god, okay.
Mamma mia okay, we got an eggplant croquette with mozzarella.
Oh my gosh, the eggplant one was so good.
We have two of these incredible entrees here.
So we have ravioli with burrata cheese and it's unbelievably good, and kathy got a local amalfi coast specialty by lima.
It's like a tongue, little bit shorter and a little bit thicker.
A lot of the main specialties around this area are seafood, base and pasta.
Another thing that's a fun fact is Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, was apparently out here on his boat yesterday.
This beach is absolutely beautiful, but it's not perfect.
Let me tell you why.
Reason number one first of all, most of the area near the water is actually little pebbles and stones and although they're not sharp, they're not comfortable on the feet because they're black.
So they get really hot and they just don't feel good.
There's nothing quite like a white sand beach, and this is very, very far from it.
I would recommend wearing flip flops.
Second thing I don't love about the beach in fact, I really don't like about the beach is the sectioning.
As you can see here, private beach, private beach, private beach, private beach, public beach that little tiny rectangle there.
But there are other public beaches like this one here and if you go around the bend there's another one over there.
And there's also a lot of private beach clubs that are not on the main beach.
Here on spazio, For example, this is a beach club right here that has its own private boat that will escort you and take you over to another beach.
Nobody's women are safe out here.
This man has a beautiful boat.
The other thing I wanted to talk about that I thought would be a bigger problem, was how busy it would be.
But to be honest, I haven't really felt that to be an issue here.
If you look at this as a nice relaxing, coastal getaway vacation town, it's busy but it's not overwhelming.
It's actually kind of surprisingly not bad.
That was a really, really nice meal and an awesome stop here.
Took about a two and a half hour break there to eat, to drink.
Bye-bye, guys.
Another successful Las Leblanc meetup, guys.
It was a pleasure to meet you all.
Now, with that being said, one of the best things to do here in Positano is actually to leave it.
You have so many options for day trips just outside.
You can go to Capri Island.
Where's the other place you can go, Carl?
They go to Amalfi, they go to Capri.
Amalfi, that's it.
So there's awesome little day trips that you can do to get some more blue ass water to fill your heart's desires.
Lemon trees?
There's a limoncello, it's being vandalized in front of my very eyes.
This is going to be a rather expensive part of the itinerary, but for those of you that want to maximize what there is to do here in Positano, you got to take out a boat.
And we're doing it with Lucy Bello.
Oh gosh okay, thank you.
You can do it for roughly 80 euros.
If you're willing to drive your own boat, you can do it for as cheap as 60 euros, but none of us want to take the responsibility of driving the boat today, so we have a driver here, which of course brings up the price, and they've so kindly seen that we're filming here and hooked us up with their nicer boat, but generally it's about 150 euros for one hour on their.
So Kirill, he's actually our captain today.
We got him on discount.
Okay, it's gonna be a little tight.
Nothing new to me.
Okay, you take the camera.
I'll sit here.
This right here is our beautiful ride today.
Are you the captain?
Christian, nice to meet you.
This is a machine.
Here we go, the water is remarkable, the views are perfect and the weather right now.
I have to say this is the highlight of all of positano so far has been right now.
There's something about getting out on the water and just seeing the amalfi coast from the water, without the distractions, without all the crowds.
It's not how everyone's going to see it.
I'll be the first to admit that but it is the best way to see it.
It's just so spectacular.
Unfortunately we leave tomorrow morning, but I know I'm going to be coming back here a few more times in my life, if I can control it.
So we are now going swimming in a cave just below the cliffside here.
So they say do one thing a day that scares you and backflips scare me.
So here we go.
How was the form?
Remarkable?
Shady.
An hour and a half went by way too quickly.
That is a highlight of Positano.
Grazie, Captain.
Bye.
Till next time, I hope.
I also want to mention that by 6 or 7 pm the beach is a whole lot quieter, the temperature has dropped, the sand is nice and manageable and I feel like I have a private beach, sort of, to myself.
I like it.
All right, time to summarize.
Who is Positano for?
First of all, I have to say I came into this with a predisposition to almost dislike this place.
I thought it was going to be too touristy, overhyped, not worth the money.
And to be honest, I see how this is an amazing place for some people.
It's not for your budget conscious travelers.
You're not going to get top value for it.
But if you want to do a short day trip here, it's totally worth it to see one of the world's most beautiful places and you can pretty much see everything in a half day here.
It's a bit of a bougie place, but if you come into it knowing that you're going to drop some serious cash, this is an amazing vacation spot.
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