James Delingpole James Delingpole

Steinbeck’s Eden

The novelist loved Positano’s sleepy beauty and 60 years on it’s no less enchanting, says James Delingpole

issue 14 October 2017

 Amalfi Coast

‘Nearly always when you find a place as beautiful as Positano, your impulse is to conceal it. You think: “If I tell, it will be crowded with tourists and they will ruin it, turn it into a honky-tonk and then the local people will get touristy and there’s your lovely place gone to hell.”

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