Amalfi Coast on Film: Path of the Gods, Positano, Ravello

Field notes from a life in transit ● currently: Amalfi Coast, Italy

Amalfi Coast

10 frames · 20 to 24 July 2026

The Amalfi Coast, after the daytrippers leave

The Amalfi Coast is vertical. Everything is up a staircase or down one, and the sea is always somewhere below, sometimes invisible in the haze. I walked the Path of the Gods at dawn, alone except for a goat with better balance than mine, and took the morning boat from Positano to Amalfi with my camera wrapped in a sweater against the spray.

Positano at nine is still pastel and polite. By noon it belongs to the tour boats. So I spent the middle of the day in the lemon terraces, and the evenings in Ravello, where the candles take over at a quarter to nine and the red mullet arrives as the sea goes dark. Two fingers of limoncello, a terrace, nobody left but the locals. That is the coast I came for.

Field notes · Amalfi Coast

Start the Path of the Gods at Bomerano early in the morning and walk toward Nocelle, mostly downhill, while the trail is still cool.
In summer the ferries between Positano and Amalfi are faster than the coast road; sit on the open deck for the view back at the villages.
Ravello sits high above the sea and is calmest in the evening; the Terrace of Infinity at Villa Cimbrone is best at golden hour.
Give the coast four days from a single base, eat seafood and lemon desserts, and do not drive the coast road yourself in high season.