Last night after settling into the hotel we headed to Oasi for dinner.  Being down south and close to the ocean, it is great to have non-pasta seafood meals. The entire area is pretty quiet. Most places appeared quite shuttered.  Overall everything was good.

This morning we woke up and went on a run around the ancient town of Paestum.  We actually got very lucky as it started raining very hard as soon as we got back to the hotel.  We had some breakfast and it was time to enter the ancient town of Paestum just as the rain cleared and the sun came out.

The ruins reminded us of Pompeii; however, some were in much better shape including the temples.  It was mind blowing to be standing in a temple that was built nearly 2,500 years ago.  Throughout the town there are a ton of stray dogs.  Some were quite cute.  Of course, we kept our distance even though they appeared friendly.  

After walking the ruins we headed in to the museum next door. It was quite impressive all of the frescos they were able to recover.

After we saw the sights, we hit the road to find a small costal town for lunch.  Below Paestum there is a large national park that is also a UNESCO site called Cilento. It sort of looks like Amalfi with towns tucked into little coves but the hills are more gentle. We drove the coastal route which is really, really beautiful but also pretty windy so we were happy to not encounter too much traffic. Our first attempt to find lunch brought us to a beautiful seaside locale; however, everything was closed up tight.  Luckily we were able to find a place in the nearby town right on the water called Cefalu. The family who ran the hotel and restaurant have a sister in San Diego who owns a restaurant in Cardiff called Trattoria Positano. They were nice and we chatted about their trips visiting California, they told us we had to come back sometime when it’s Summer. We would happily come back here.