This last weekend was a 3-day holiday weekend for Steve for Veteran’s Day and Brian had 5 days off school, so we decided to waste the days away on the Amalfi Coast. We rented a beautiful apartment in the cliff side village of Furore, situated between Amalfi and Positano. We spent thursday morning packing, loading the car, and then attending Brian’s first parent-teacher conference of 1st grade (rave reviews by the way: he’s smart, nice, and cute). We were finally able to hit the road about noon and it took every second of the daylight hours and into the night to arrive at our weekend getaway at about 830 pm. We grabbed a late dinner at a nice restaurant right next to our rental and then threw ourselves into bed at 11pm. The first full day, the kids were up with the sun, so we all got up and going, and headed into Sorrento, where we immediately caught a ferry to Capri to see the famous blue grotto! Except, it wasn’t meant to be, the Blue Grotto was closed for high tide, which we would have know had we chosen to pre-plan this trip. Opps, lately I’ve been more into a go-with-flow approach to trip planning and this was one time it came back to bite us. But the day was gorgeous and sunny and warm compared to our chilly Northern Italy weather, so we hopped aboard a bus and walking tour of the island. We stopped at many viewpoints for pictures, explored the two towns, Capri and Ana Capri, toured the August Gardens and saw the Fire Cliffs of Capri. Next time, however, we check tide schedules! (Pictures above: our rental in Furore. Below: Sorrento from the ferry and the road in Sorrento down to the marina. The rest of the pictures are on Capri)
Mount Vesuvius from Capri. We would be summiting this the next day at noon!
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