Travel Diary - The Isle of Capri

The Isle of Capri is the famous island off the western coast of Italy near Naples. Its roots are ancient, going back to the time when illustrious visitors included some of the apostles of Jesus. Nowadays the famous inhabitants include people like Sophia Loren.

Where it is.

A sign in the parking lot at the Bucharest airport.

Getting to Italy from Romania is pretty inexpensive, but once you get to Italy, prepare to empty your pockets, and getting to Capri is no different.You have to take a ferry to get there, then you have take another boat to tour around the island, and then you pay again to take a little row boat into the Blue Groto. 

Which you so totally want to to. Don't leave before you get to the short video at the bottom. You'll be amazed.

We only spent an afternoon there, so considered this the condensed tour. Actually, I never thought I'd be blogging about my trip so I never paid attention the way I would've other wise, but here are a few pictures.

Those are DH's legs in the middle of the rower's legs!

When we arrived at the the entrance of the Blue Groto (=cave), we were greeted by the row boat people. They were more than happy to take another 20 euro each and squeeze four of us into a boat, making us lie down. DH and I traveled with another couple. My friend and I had to lean back onto her husband--so cosy! I can't imagine if we were actually strangers as some probably were. :)

Once inside you are greeted with waters so blue you can't believe it.  The rower guy (I'm sure there's a proper title but I don't know it) then starts singing, which sounds pretty sweet.  Of course, the cave gets a little crowded after awhile, and with all the rowers singing, it does feel a bit like a Disney ride.

And just like that it's over. Still, it was fun and worth doing.

Afterward when the island ferry successfully delivered us back to the bay, we hiked up to town center for lunch. It's several stories worth of stairs. There's a reason people take the train up, but I'm glad we walked. You get a better feel of what it's really like for the locals who live there.

View from the top.

All in all, a very nice way to spend an afternoon.

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