Amalfi Coast: a rainy day

Friday April 4th.
An uneventful day.

Today we woke up to clouds rolling in from Africa. It wasn't raining yet, so we still ate breakfast on the patio. We just did a lot of reading and walked up to the town square in Ravello right before 11am.
We sat in the church for a while. I took some photos. 

Then we got comfortable on a covered outdoor patio at Al San Domingo, drinking espresso and rooibos tea while using the wifi. 

And then it started to pour!

Ravello's town square:

Town square

We sat and sat and sat, sipped and sipped, meditated and read until finally it lightened up enough for us to find some lunch. We ate at Ristorante Vittoria. I had an octopus salad and cuttlefish (squid). It was really light and lemony and didn't involve anything but the squid and some vegetables- perfect for a rainy day. Our food there was good, but Max order a pizza and it just wasn't as good. That was our only problem with the place. 

We wandered the town some more and relaxed.

On our walk around town that afternoon, while it was still kind of drizzly and damp, we were walking down some stairs and saw this guy:

EWWWWWW!

I have ascertained I have a deep, irrational fear of large frogs. Especially the ones with weirdly bent legs. Oh my GOODNESS. So gross. He was bigger than my HAND. Like my entire hand. 

After a freak out sesh that lasted about 15 minutes, I calmed down enough to walk past him. 

Our view of the rain clouds from the terrace at B&B I Limoni:

When it came to choosing a dinner spot, we both knew we wanted to go back to Cumpa Cosimo. No question. Our only hesitation was that were not too hungry and preferred to order ourselves. We couldn't risk 'mama' coming over and offering us 3 or 4 courses again. I could not bear to think about the crestfallen look on her face as she or her grown son came to clear away our plates with half finished food leftover. Oh horror of horrors! But the allure of the food at such a good price won us over, and -mama or no mama- we decided to eat there.

As luck would have it, she let us order for ourselves. We had fresh, local anchovies marinated in lemon, then a vegetable soup for me, and linguine with porcini mushrooms for Max. I believe we also had an arugula salad. So very good, and not too heavy.
We did not have the opportunity to build a big appetite this day because of the rain, and it was fitting that it was also a Friday in Lent. So we noshed happily and lightly and still felt incredibly satisfied. When they asked what we would like for dessert, we could hardly refuse homemade tiramisu though... They even insisted we take extra! No arguing with that.

At least I was spared the limoncello.