From Capri to the Amalfi Coast

Wow, what a day!  We left for the Isle of Capri at 7:35 this morning.  Weather was sunny and nice, but windy.  When we got on the boat, and by the way whoever told me it was a short 5 minute trip was dreaming because it took 30 minutes.   The water was choppy and we had lots of rocking and rolling.  Not my favourite thing to do.

Then, much to my chagrin, we got on a smaller open boat for a tour around the Capri coast.  Very interesting but nerve wracking.  We backed into a couple of caves and the boat was rocking.

We went through an "hole in the wall" and when you are under the arch you are supposed to close your eyes and make a wish.  I wished we would get back alive!!!  

Capri is absolutely beautiful. Words cannot describe it.

After that we took a tram called Unico Capri up to the main town where we could shop and have something to eat.  We had coffees and a sandwich and sat outside in the sun.  

Wonderful views. Unfortunately you have to take a boat to get off the Isle of Capri which I was not too keen on doing.  However, although it was cloudy by then, Naples Bay was much calmer and we had a smooth trip back to Sorrento.  Enough boating already.

By the time we got back to Sorrento  the clouds came in and the rain. 

From there, we took mini buses along the Amalfi Coast to Positano. named after Poisidon.

We started walking, and some people went down to the beach.  We didn't because it is a fairly steep hill and I didn't think I could make it back up.  We relaxed in cafe with a lovely garden and had a beer and a wine.

We were going to buy a couple of lemons to bring home but we thought our suitcase would be overweight with these lemons

Back to the mini buses and home to our hotel.

We had a "dine around" dinner at a restaurant called Parrucchianos,  It was gorgeous!  Huge rooms with gardens all around.  I mean trees, flowers, all around the eating areas.  Also hydrangeas on some tables and beautiful centrepieces with large lemons.  As you can see above the lemons grow quite large here.  

Below is our table with Donna and Joe, Pat and Ken (aka Half a Beer) and Bonnie and Joe.

It was a typical "Italian" meal where you are full after the first course, really full after the second course, and absolutely stuffed after the third course.  However the dessert was too tempting not to eat.  We strolled back to the hotel and the night was lovely.  Hopefully we burned some of those calories off!

Tomorrow, off to Pompeii and then back to Roma.