Hello again, its been a busy few days since the last post but it's been some of the best ones because Briana arrived safe and sound on thursday morning! We've been enjoying all the shopping everywhere we go, and both got a little bit of sun on our shoulders today in Capri.
I had lots of fun showing Briana all my favorite spots on Ischia, the day went by too fast! I took her to Sant Angelo and Lacco Ameno, and treated her to dinner at the hostel restaurant. You would think after all my stories about how long meals take she would have known what to expect, but I guess I didn't explain it well enough! I thought she was going to fall asleep under the table like one of the dogs...but Lorenzo made me a pesto pizza which was amazing, so I enjoyed the last meal there!
Friday was an early morning heading off to Capri at 8am, and we were a little overwhelmed when we got to our hotel and they served us welcome champagne and walked us up to our room. They were very apologetic that we only had a view of the rock wall behind the hotel, but you get what you pay for! (Even this view was very VERY pricey for us). We explored most of the town and the designer shopping that we couldn't afford, and walked around one edge of the island, down many many stairs (Briana complained alot, until we discovered that it was a circle path and we didn't have to walk back up!) and saw lots of rock caves that looked like they would make perfect homes for dragons! Briana was still a little jetlagged and I've got a super sore throat and cough so we went back to the lovely hotel and went to bed very early, after watching some news (we've decided we're not very good italians but we'll make great senior citizens!)
After almost 12 hours of sleep, we were up bright and early this morning and I dragged Briana off on another walk to Villa Jovis, where Emperor Tiberius had a summer home. We decided we needed to see some of the coast, so took a boat tour around the island. We stopped at the blue grotto, and it's just too painful to describe here how they would bring rowboats to our bigger boat and take people into the grotto 4 at a time (for an additional 12 euro)....we skipped that part, was too touristy for us, and sat in the sun on the boat. Once that hour-long ordeal was over, the rest of the trip around the island was lovely with great views, different than what we'd seen from on the island. We headed back to the hotel with a gelato and a cone of cherries, then caught the ferry into naples. We trekked up to our hotel (i impressed Briana with my map reading skillz) and found the McDonalds next door! We couldnt afford food on Capri, so we were both pretty hungry by this point!
We've just come back from some naples shopping after dinner, where I introduced briana to my favorite Italian store, Carpisa. It's where i bought my wallet, and i pretty much buy something everytime i go in. I think she liked it too, judging from the big lime green carpisa shopping bag next to me! Time for bed now before an early train to Rome.
Miss everybody lots! can't wait to show some pictures when we're back!
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