Blue Grotto - Isle of Capri

Buona Serra-

It is another fantastically beautiful evening in Italy. We are sitting on the balcony of our hotel ristorante, outside, with a breathtaking view of the Gulf (Golf) of Naples. We spent the day on the Isle of Capri. The major attraction on Capri is the Blue Grotto (Grotto Azzuro). A cynic would say that this is one of the world’s great tourist traps. But we’re not cynics. We spent several hours in travel time getting to the Grotto for about 5 minutes of time actually spent in it. The Blue Grotto is a cave in the rock right on the ocean. There is a three foot hole that the boat (a row boat) goes through and then there is this big room inside. There were a number of boats inside the grotto at the same time. One of the boatsman was singing Italian Love Songs (?) while in the Grotto. Would have been very romantic other than the 10 other boats and Madison. The water is 60 feet deep with the bottom being white sand. The sand reflects the light from the sun creating this unbelievable blue color, hence the name Blue Grotto. Duh!! See pictures.

Madison had her first true Italian pizza today. She agreed it was pretty special. She has been good about eating. (Jilayne- she is doing just fine food wise!) We got back to our hotel about 5:00. We spent the rest of the afternoon in our room. We napped while Madi was on the computer.

That pretty much covers the day. Onto Rome tomorrow.

Lynda and Tim (and Madison)