Today our new “Hardy Family” had our first whole day excursion away from Sorrento, to the wonderful island of Capri. To get to this island it only took a short twenty-minute boat ride from the large marina right down below the large escalating cliff in front of our hotel. To keep from getting sea sick most people decided they could use a few extra minutes of sleep and made themselves comfy in the nice large boat seats. Upon our arrival to Capri the sun was just about directly overhead. One of our wonderful teachers, Ms. Cescolini, bought our tickets for an absolutely stunning boat tour around the entire island of Capri. Right off the boat we all scurried to the next boat to begin our tour. The tour started by leaving the harbor, in the town facing the in-land, and making our way left, from someone on the islands point of view, around the amazingly beautiful rock face cliff shore of the island of Capri. Other than the unbelievably blue water, he first major sight on our tour was the amazing Blue Grotto. The Blue Grotto is a cave that is almost completely submerged under water to get into the cave the ferry men, on their small boats that fit only four people, must time their entrance with the waves. We were lucky we had a beautiful day like we did because if the winds are too high they will say that all tours to the Blue Grotto are canceled because it is too dangerous to try and go in. Once inside the Grotto the tour guides explain how the very cave was the personal swimming pool for Augustus Caesar in the time when he was a great Roman Emperor. A great little history fact for our history students. The water was the bluest I think anyone on this trip had every seen. It was a beautiful light blue that illuminated the room of the cave with such magnificence and beauty. Unfortunately we did not get to swim in the Grotto just as the great emperors of Rome had had the chance to but still being in the cave at all was an unforgettable experience for everyone. After the Grotto part of the tour, we continued to make our way around the island, with our tour guide pointing out interesting or historical places on the island. Most of them being “very famous”, one of our tour guides favourite terms. As we circumferenced the island we could see the sea stretching out before us like an endless sheet of blue laid down by God himself. Or if we looked back we could see Mt. Vesuvius’ shadow off in the distance, which we had climbed four days before. After seeing the some 100-200 ft. rock cliffs al around Capri, we made our way in to the towns of the island, where we were lead yet again by our great and “very famous” tour guide, Giovanni. Up to the middle point of the island we went, traveling at almost 60-degrees in train cars that traveled up the steep slope of Capri. Up at the top one could see the sea stretching on for miles and miles, or you could see all of the bay of Naples and Mt. Vesuvius in the other direction. Walking around and taking in the sights and sounds of Capri for the next hour or so concluded our tour of Capri, but of course before we made out way back down the steep slope of the mountain side, we had to get some shopping in for the lady’s. Once taking the boat back to the hotel where most people slept again including myself, we had about 2 hours to get ready for our small sunset trip to the point of Sorrento where there was one of the most memorable sunset moments and music and of course about 10 extra large Italian take out pizzas. After the sunset we made our way back to the hotel to have a nice night out on the town for our last night in Sorrento
I hope this helps inform everyone who is checking up o the blog regularly on how our wonderful trip is going so far, and I think I am speaking for most people when I say we are having a total blast and that the teachers on this trip help it to be just that much more memorable for all of us. Also there is no shortage of pictures so parents that want to see every moment of the trip will have no problem doing so as long they don’t mind going through about 10,000 pictures haha.
Ciao! Shaun Dewar
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