Thursday, 13 August 2015

Hamid Drake in Ravello

Just chillin with the locals!

Getting ready to hear some JAZZ!
The "road" to our apartment!?!?

The main piazza in Ravello

Hamid Drake on drums and Pasquale Mirra on vibraphone

This morning we woke up, packed up all our stuff and brought it up to the pool. Then we went for one last swim, had lunch, and said good bye to Villa Ketty! We were driven to the train station and then picked up by a personal driver named Roberto! Roberto drove us for a long time till we got to the tiny village where we were staying, Torello, a little section of Amalfi! On the drive there were three stops. The first one was to stop and get a picture with the view of Positano! The second we stopped to get lemonade and the people were crazy! They kept giving us free grapes and peaches and whenever we took one they would go "hey!" And everyone would laugh! It was so crazy but a great experience! The last stop was in this strange underground cave! We went on a little boat tour through this grotto and it was another great experience! We finally arrived in Torello and said goodbye to Roberto. There were people waiting to take us to our apartment and the main guy's name was Gweedo and it was like the coolest thing ever! Like his name is greedo like the green guys in Star Wars! I love gweedos! I have a weird obsession. I should be on My Strage Addiction! It's a show where people have strange addictions! I could be on for greedo! If my plans don't work I will probably end up marrying a greedo! Somehow! Idk what I will do but I will some how marry one!<3 <3<3<3<3 

Anywayyyyssss......we had to walk down like 100 stairs with all our luggage until we got to our house! Thankfully Greedo helped us <3. We got into our room and we were immediately sad at how bad the room was: no air conditioning, bad beds, super hot, and no wifi!?!! But there were two showers and we had an amazing view so that was good :)))) After Greedo left I took a shower on our patio outside naked! It was very nice! Thankfully no one saw me! After my shower we chilled for a bit and then walked up around 480 stairs to the main square in Ravello. At the square we got our tickets for the big Hamid Drake show! The whole reason we came to Amalfi! First we went into the big stage are where Hamid was playing and it had an amazing view! The opening show were these awesome guys playing music with bongos and xylophones and singing and they played for an hour. When they were over we went back in the square and I got a Fanta. I played soccer with some kids in the square and wrecked them! But then they had to go and I played with these other kids who were crazy and just talked to me in Italian! Then we went to see Hamid Drake! He was awesome on drums and had a partner playing a vibraphone and they played for so long and I think I fell asleep because it went till midnight and of course they got a encore and we didn't get home till one! And of course we had to walk back down all those stairs to our village and we didn't even see another human. Today was awesome!
Fun fact: My dad knew Hamid Drake because he did some music thing with him and we got to talk to him after the show.

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