Oh the places to go.....

Capri and the Blue Grotto

So today is Wednesday. We got up early and made several treks up to the bathrooms to shower and brush teeth etc. We got to the bus stop in time to catch it to the boat to head over to Capri. We had a really nice ride over and they did a little tour of the island and showed us different locations etc. One of the stops we made was this big cavern that someone had found a rock formation of the Virgin Mary!! I love how they can find the Virgin Mary in everything!! We were dropped off on the opposite side of the island called anticapri which is the little capri town on the opposite side of the big capri town. The island of Capri is really amazing in and of itself. The whole island is basically a big rock jetting up from the ocean. It has very little beaches and the beaches it does have are all pebble rocks. There is hardly any flatland and so everything is built into the sides of the clifts, houses, roads etc. There is a bus that will take you from anticapri over to capri which we took. Our main goal for going to Capri and staying here an extra day was to go to this place called the blue grotto. Charles has always wanted to go there so we were doing this for him. You,ll have to google pictures of it cause it is pretty amazing. We found a boat taxi that would take us over there and so we took it over. Before we found the boat we were in capri trying to find where to go and we happened to stop and ask this american couple directions. they told us where to go and when we were walking away I said to Charles "they looked almost like they could be mormon." He agreed and said I should ask them where they were from so I did. I went back and asked them and they said they were from Layton, Utah. I responded that I knew that they were mormon and they laughed and said "do we look that obvious?" To which I said yes, because you,re the only ones fully dressed and miserably hot like we were. We chatted for a few minutes and said our goodbyes.

We found our boat to take over to the blue grotto. When the boat got there I was still trying to figure out where this grotto was because all you could see was a wall of rocks. But then you saw these guys in little rowboats taking people in and out of the bigger boats they were in. Then you see them row over to this one point in the wall and then you see the little hole. It seriously is not wider than a row boat and to get in there is a chain that the men pull the boats through, but it,s not very high and so everyone in the boat has to lay down to fit underneath it, even the rower. Once inside it,s pitch black and you have to wait a second for your eyes to adjust but when you look back at the opening where you just came from you see the bluest of blue water you can possibly imagine. The further back in the grotto you go the bluer the grotto gets. It was absolutely amazing. That,s the one thing that will keep me coming back to Capri and southern Italy is how spectacularly blue the water is. It,s almost like the color of saphires or how blue the girl got in Charlie and the chocolate factory and I,m not even doing it justice in my description. It,s one of those things you have to see for yourself because I,m not even sure my pictures I took can describe it completely.

After seeing the grotto we caught a boat back to Sorrento, grabbed some lunch, went to get some gelato and ran into our mormon couple again of all places. We tried to find a biscotti bowl for Charles mom and couldn,t find anything so we headed out back up to Rome where we are for the evening. We,re catching up on our email, laundry, will head out to get some dinner and then another rousing night of Uno. Tomorrow we are off to Florence!!

posted by Camille @ 1:11 PM