The Amalfi coastline lies between Positano and Salerno, it is the most celebrated stretch of the Mediterranean springs to mind. You'll drive along a length of coastline as well preserved as any religious relic. The only way to do it justice is to take the only coast road, opened in the mid-eighteenth century by the Bourbon King Ferdinand II's carriages. Now, as then, this roadway passes white villages, churches with majolica cupolas, sudden rocky protrusions and terraced groves swollen with lemons. Every curve reveals a fishing cove nestled in the rocks, a quick glimpse of blue or a Bouganvilla-draped.