Amalfi coast....Friday

As promised....amalfi coast....kim and my weekend away....normally we get one weekend away every 10 weeks that kim is at home from the ship and during that time mom looks after sofia.....highly appreciated...this time....we chose the amalfi coast...about 500km from our beautiful home in montisi....

Friday after school (more about that in another blog), which was at 13:30 we drove, with the bmw motorcycle, down to the amalfi coast. Our hotel was in Praiano, one of the villages on the amalfi coast....as we arrived, we literally dropped our bags, hopped in the shower and asked at reception whether they could recommend any nice restaurant-within walking distance.....and we were told there was one, 5 minutes walk with an amazing view...la moressa.....we chose a table on the open terrace with an amazing view.....let me share a pic....

View at La Moressa
Our bubbly and our view
View when it got dark
Kim and i decided to share the starter....polipo con crema di patate.....octopus with potato cream....well....it was like mash potato....and it was so damn delicious...it was truely wow.....
Polipo
And also the presentation, beautiful....for mains i had the seafood salad and kim had the calamari with roasted potato...again...beautiful presentation and food was great....our favourite was still the starter though....
Seafood salad
Calamari with roasted potato
Dessert....we were full...but we decided to induldge after we heard the options...a pistacchio cake...who would say NO to that....
Pistacchio cake

Wow....so good...never had something like this before and it was fabulous...i would definitely recommend this restaurant if you are ever on the amalfi coast....worth the drive to go and eat and Praiano.....

I think i end this blog now....and i will do another blog about how we spent saturday....a rather busy day...jammed packed the whole day....so let me leave that for the next blog....so cheers from me...im off to dream about my pistacchio cake now.

 

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