Capri

These three destinations (Capri, Positano, Amalfi) were part of our day trips from our homebase in Sorrento. I’ve been meaning to blog about our experiences at each, but the last days in Italy were busy and with little internet access.

Capri was as beautiful as we had heard it would be. A town perched hundreds of feet above the sea where every house and street is immaculately kept. There were flowers decorating walls and balconies, views of the ocean that were breath taking, and expensive boutiques for window shopping. Ian and I decided we would take the bus to AnaCapri (Capri’s sister town) in order to visit the Blue Grotto. The ride up the mountains was thrilling – a small bus packed with people taking sharp turns on roads with railings no more than 2 feet high. I couldn’t stand to watch the cliffs below as the weight of the bus would shift from side to side! The Blue Grotto was a nice experience – To enter the grotto you must ride a tiny boat in which you lay completely flat. There is a chain that the gondolier pulls on to get our little boat through a small opening in the rocks. Inside the grotto, the water seems an electric blue color – a natural wonder created by the reflection of the sunlight on the sand and water. In Capri we also saw the Arco Naturale and completed a 1.5 hour hike around the island before taking our ferry back to Sorrento.