The following weekend was also booked through Bus2Alps and we definitely visited some of my absolute favorite places, I fell in LOVE! The AMALFI COAST. As is the usual drill we took a bus through Thursday night, arrived in our hostel to sleep a couple hours in a city called Sorrento on the coast, and then were off to the small island of Capri for the day! From the Sorrento coast we took a private boat with our tour group to Capri which was simply beautiful, my friends and I were sitting out on the bow so we got to see everything, it was so peaceful.
We arrived first at the imfamous Blue Grotto, which is on the side of the island in the mouth of this tiny cave opening. Basically during the daylight hours the cave opening is in a position so that the light coming in reflects and looks like it lights up the water!! It is absolutely phenomenal! It looks like there are lights underneath illuminating this cave...there is only one way in and you go on this 4 person wooden boat manned by a local Italian who steers you around it, singing Italian songs, giving a Blue Grotto history lesson, and reminding you to tip him, clever man...in any case it was an awesome start to the weekend!
Now if you're thinking that the island of Capri sounds familiar...it's because it probably does. Most celebrities, European and American have homes here, it is very upscale, very private, and very beautiful. No big deal our guides were pointing out George Clooney, the owner of Ferrarri, and some of basically the worlds richest people's mansion homes on the cliffside towns of this tiny island. We got to explore the island, take a chairlift to the top that overlooks everything, had some bomb seafood, explored the pebble beach, sipped free limoncello, and watched the local shoemaker make jeweled sandals!
After our lovely day exploring the island we took the boat on one more cruise around the island and headed back to Sorrento and our hostel for the night. We were staying in an 11 person co-ed hostel room, which made for quite the interesting weekend. That night we went out in Sorrento for dinner and to an American bar/discoteca some awesome people we were hanging out with. Proved to be a lot of fun.
Saturday was by far my favorite...I absolutely fell in love with the town we visited: Positano. It is this gorgeous town on the coast, with these insane black sand beaches, and is built completely into the mountainside, it's streets are almost vertical! You have to climb uphill to get anywhere from the beach! It reminded me of Laguna, CA, the town had such an authentic beachy style to it, artists covered the streets and small boutiques could be found between the tabacchi and gelato shops. Also held the best sandwich/panini shop in Italy, hands down! We spent most of the day laying out on the beach, and exploring the town, before jumping on a private boat that took us to a sick spot to cliff dive up to 40 feet, and go cave swimming!! SO FANTASTIC. Such a rush and one of the best days I could've possibly experienced.
After an exciting day we retired to the hostel for the night, which actually had live entertainment, a decent bar, and a rooftop hangout with a beach view, perfectly chill and wonderful way to spend the night with some good friends! On Sunday we hitched it over to Pompeii, the infamous city of ruins that fell to Mt. Vesuvius during Roman times. They kept EVERYTHING in this place accurate, as if no one in the city had left, it was eerie. There were still paintings and statues and full on homes that you could walk through. There were no roofs to any of them and all of the buildings were crumbling with age but still held firm. And it was not a place to hit up for an hour, this was an entire city, and you walk...the entire...city. I mean you have to see it all. Pompeii was the perfect ending to an amazing weekend.
We even found a home that we particularly liked, claimed rooms of course, and Mamma Bea put on a little cooking show for us! Such a pro.
Well I'm about to pass out...molto amore tutti!
Ciao for now,
Jessica
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