November 1, 2011

Happy 11/1/11! Dave didn’t feel well last night so he decided to stay in bed for a while and skip the trip to Capri. The rest of us took the elevator out of San Antonio Square down to the port. We bought tickets on the fast ferry to Capri (about a 45 minute ride). Our first mission was to go to the Blue Grotto, as Lana and I are the only ones to have seen it before. We took a small boat (the Olga) out and then had to wait a bit, as there were boatloads of Japanese tourists ahead of us. Finally, we were able to get into a rowboat and into the grotto. It was a lovely blue, but maybe not as blue as the last time we were here because the sun was behind light clouds today. The blueness is determined by the refraction of the light coming into the grotto. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any pictures inside the grotto as my camera was set on no flash and it took me most of the time in the grotto to figure out how to change it as it was quite dark. The good news is that Kelly and John will share their pictures and we do have some from our last trip. When we got back to port, we took the funicular up to the town of Capri. We did a little window-shopping, but noticed that many of the shops and hotels had closed for the season (see photo). We strolled around and found a garden where we could overlook the sea and some 500-foot tall rocks jutting up near the shore of the island (see photo). One of them is called the rock of love. We ate in the main square - just a small snack as we are having a pasta buffet at the hotel tonight. We took a bus up to Anacapri. The bus ride was totally awesome! We had to stand and we could look down forever into the sea – a little disconcerting, but quite a thrill! We walked around in the small hill town of Anacapri enjoying the architecture and flowers. I took a picture of a flight of stairs decorated with lovely ceramic tiles (see photo). We then eventually reversed our steps – bus and then funicular down to the port. We got back to Sorrento a little after 4 to find that Dave was feeling much better. I am going to put my feet up for a few minutes before it is time for dinner.