"Praiano" Praiano by edwis

One day we took a short drive from Amalfi town to see the picture perfect postcard setting of Positano, which is the largest and most popular seaside village. Along the way we decided to stop in a little place named Praiano, a very non-tourist small village up in the hills. We actually had to park along the highway road and then walk up about a ¼ mile up to find this little place. First we found the local cemetery which had about 8 flights of layered steps, each layer with cemetery burial graves, then more steps. The grave stones were interesting for many of them had an embedded photograph in the headstone. We found this stop to be very historic and imagined about the families buried there. Then we walked up a curved and hilly street some more not knowing where it would lead us, and we found a little town center consisting six-eight buildings.

It was here that I got a neck / cheek shave by an old-time barber. Half way through it, all of a sudden his wife comes in from behind a drawn curtain with a tray of café for us. The barber tells me that he doesn’t speak any English, only a little bit of German. That’s seems Ok - but then I realized that he is telling me all of this while speaking in pretty good English! I still can’t figure out that conversation. From there we roam the streets a little and found a village grocery shop that sold white wine without any labels for about $1.60 US.