Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Today was the best day yet.  Once again we were off at the crack of dawn; they ferried us down to the harbour in mini buses as the road switches back and has hairpin bends in order to get down there and a coach couldn't get down.  Then we went on a ferry large enough to cross the Channel although it's only a 20 minute sail to the island of Capri. Then we transferred to a smaller boat and had a leisurely sail right around the island.  The skipper was the most accomplished sailor I've ever come across.  He went through arches in rocks that looked neither high nor wide enough to get through. He also reversed right into caves close enough for us to touch the rocks in places like the famous blue grotto.
Then we got into even smaller buses which took us up the mountainous and very narrow road to Anacapri at the top of the island.
From there mum was persuaded to get in the chairlift to go to the very summit and fair play to her, 95% of our trip chickened out.  I was going up come hell or high water but she did it; she even found time to take 20,000 photos while doing so.  What a girl!


Had to rush back then to have lunch at a pre-determined restaurant. And it was another good,cheap meal. We had salad and a main course followed by tiramisu and I had 2 puddings as a lady who shared our table didn't want hers. I had a limoncello with her to finish with. We also got a drink with it, all for 13 euros. In the afternoon we walked around the town and were supposed to be going to a park but it was too hot so we sloped off to a bar for a beer.
Lovely meal tonight, shrimp cocktail followed by beef steak and for pudding I had this thing that looked a bit like a cream doughnut but it was literally soaked in alcohol; you couldn't drive after one
of those!
Am I becoming obsessed with food? Oh yes, I broke the toilet this morning! Think I pressed the plastic flush button too hard and water was running into the toilet full time. Anyway I merely reported it to the concierge on the way out and it was fixed when we got back. We like 4 star hotels😊
Now for those who read the blog yesterday you will remember the mist that indicates a warm day. Well, here is the photographic evidence.


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