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happySorrento might as well be Ocean City. It’s a neat little beach town with markets and food and trinkets, and night-life, etc, etc. We got there with no difficulty, checked-in without incident, and headed out to see the town. We shopped, ate dinner, shopped some more, then returned to the hotel.
The whole point of being in Sorrento is that it was an easy hop in the morning to catch a ferry to Capri, an island that Sabrina has visited, but we had not. Sabrina loved it, and wanted to go back, so we figured, why not?
We woke, ate breakfast, and caught the ferry to Capri. Once on the Island, we walked, shopped, and climbed to the top for pictures. After that, we caught a bus to Anacapri (the other town on the Island) in order to ride the chair-lift that Sabrina remembered to the top of the Island for more pictures (from a different place). Then we walked to a place called the Blue Grotto.
The Blue Grotto is a hole in the side of the cliff that you can take a row boat into, if you have a guide. The opening is so small that you have to lay down in the boat or you ram your head into the walls of the cave. Once inside, it opens up, revealing a sizable cave, and enough sunlight to see the walls of the cave. The impressive part, though, is that the water is so clear that a majority of the sunlight comes from under the water, from outside the cave, so everything “sparkles” and the water appears to be glowing the beautiful blue color all around the cave.
It was closed to us because the waves were too rough that day.
Other than that, we were able to walk all the way to the opening along the cliff front using metal stairs and hand-rails. We got bunches of pictures, saw the pretty blue water, and got splashed plenty by the waves. Incredible!
Then we caught a bus back to Anacapri for lunch, then the bus back to Capri for shopping until our return ferry home.
Once back in Sorrento, we swam from the beach for a short while, then returned to hotel, changed, and went back into town for more shopping and dinner.
The next day, we returned to Rome via the same train routes, reversed. We had plenty of time to kill, so we went BACK to the Hard Rock Café for lunch (it was THAT good), then returned to the train station to wait for our train home.
We arrived home last night, about 11:30p.
Hope you enjoyed the read!
