Hattie Sime

Feb 24, 2025 | dailymail.co.uk | Hattie Sime |Harriet Sime

Sunday morning and old men in sun-faded gilets are gesticulating at Bar Centrale while sipping on espressos. Outside, elderly women in colourful aprons push aside shutters on iron balconies as the early sun bathes the medieval streets. I'm in Lari, a tiny village known for its castles and craft pasta in the rolling Tuscan hills, 25 minutes east of Pisa.

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After visiting the Amalfi Coast in 1953, John Steinbeck wrote: ‘Nearly always when you find a place as beautiful as Positano... your impulse is to conceal it.’The American writer felt confident enough to share his discovery, writing in Harper’s Bazaar that the town’s remote and somewhat inhospitable location would dissuade the average traveller. That was more than 70 years ago and he could not have been more wrong.