Isle of Capri

Today we went by a short 10 minute ferry ride to the island of the rich and famous - Capri.

This is us at the harbour from where the ferry leaves Sorrento.  As you can see, another perfect day.

When we arrived at Capri, we immediately jumped onto a smaller boat, to take a group of us to the famous Blue Grotto.  I say famous, but i didn't actually know what it was because if i did, i may not have gone.

This is us on the next boat, still reasonably big, i mean i wouldn't go any smaller by choice, however, the boats kept getting smaller.  When we got to the Grotto, which must mean cave in the side of a big rock on the side an island, we had to get into a rowing boat.... from the slightly bigger boat.

Our boat is in the right bottom corner, and go through that narrow hole in the rock, which you can just make out one boat going through.

A selfie of us in the boat, just to prove i was there.  I can't believe I was smiling. Pitch black here but when you turned and saw the light coming through that tiny hole, you saw this. Then the Boat driver started singing Bocelli so we could hear the echoes,  It didn't actually sound quite so good with all the other drivers singing the same song at different places, it was actually a  bit scary.

So after all that excitement, it was off to the town of Capri by shuttlebus.  Capri had shops like this,

and views like this.  We spent more time looking at the views.

For lunch we drove to the next village along called Anacapri.  Again, more beautiful views like this.

After lunch, Paul thought he would go still higher and take the chairlift to the highest point of the island.  

This is what he saw.

This was the ferry ride back, at long last - a sensible boat!