Sunday, July 3, 2016

Adventure Number 4

Hostel life is completely different than I ever could have imagined. Our rooms were only used for sleeping and everyone just hung out on the porch and played card games until 1 in the morning. Instead of doing our own thing, people would join up with other travelers and go on kayak or boat adventures. It was a broad spectrum of travelers that we met. We met a lady from England who was a banker and a girl from in Australia working as an Au Pere in Milan. Our first adventure in Positano included a boat and eight new friends. Some girls that we met the night before and Mary and I all wanted to go boating and did the math to figure out that for a couple hours in would be only 12 euros each! We packed a couple snacks and a couple bottles of prosecco and headed down to the beach to rent a boat. When we got there, the worker asked the lady who said she would drive the boat if she could drive and she said yes and they handed her the keys. That was it. No license or test drive. So all of us headed out into the Mediterranean Sea after taking a little time to figure out how to run the boat. We found a secluded cove and dropped the anchor and took about a million pictures before jumping in. I decided that the water is the color of a blue jolly rancher. After we tired ourselves out from swimming, we went back in to shore and ate dinner together. The second adventure includes the water and some more new friends that we met. They were another set of sisters, which made the four of us instant friends. We spent almost all the rest of the trip hanging out with them. One of the days we decided to rent kayaks for the day and pack a lunch. We struck out at 11:30 and got hungry almost right away so stopped at a little beach for lunch. We didn’t end up leaving that beach for a couple hours because we found a perfect tanning rock that fit all of us. After the sun burned us to a perfect crisp, we headed back. Mary and I were paddling away and saw some people cliff jumping so of course we went over and tried it out. It only took us 20 minutes to get the guts to jump and the only reason we finally did was because the rocks were so hot from the sun they were giving us blisters. There were so many more adventures that we had in our time there and I will never forget the amazing people with whom we spent our days.

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