Capri, Italy

Ladies in Sorrento, Italy
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Our friends Reena and Lisa came to visit us here in Sorrento this weekend.  They started in Barcelona, then they traveled to Napoli, then to us in Sorrento, and finally their trip is ending in Paris.  It was a nice treat to see some familiar faces from home.  The first day of our visit together started a little late because our phone was not working, and neither was our email.  Finally we found some email and found out Reena and Lisa had been trying to get a hold of us for the longest time.  We sucessfully found each other and headed for the beach.  We went out later that night to a night club which was a well kept secret of the locals.  We arrived at 11:30pm, only to find out we were an hour too early.  So we went else where and never made it back.  

Sorrento, Italy
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The next day together took us to the Island of Capri.  Caesar Augustus was the first to discover the charm of Capri when he visited the island in 29 BC. The first inhabitants to settle in Capri were the Greek “Teleboi” who came to the island in the VIII Century BC. This marked the beginning of Augustan rule. He was subsequently followed by his successor Tiberius who embarked on an intense building program between 27 and 37 AD, resulting in the construction of 12 villas.  Today, only the fortified walls of an ancient Greek acropolis still survive as testimony to their presence on the island.  In 1826 Hotel Pagano, the island's first hotel, welcomed the German writer Augustus Kopisch. Today it is full of hotels and attracts many A-listers. 

Pre-party in Sorrento with our friends from home
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We got a late start to the island, which was just fine for us all because we wanted to avoid the shops and  overly priced food.  The island was beautiful, and that is all we can pretty much say.  We took multiple transportations to get to Anacapri, one of them being a bus which took us on some cliff side roads. When we got to Anacapri we took a chairlift to the very top of the island.  The view was stunning, but we were short on time, we still had to do a 45 minute walk down the hill, and then take two more modes of transportation to get to our boat on time.  We would have liked to see the blue grotto, but it was closed for the day.  The blue grotto is supposed to be a gorgeous cave at the very end of the island only accessible by boat.