483. Day 6 - Capri

Today is sadly my last night in Capri. Anouk is heading back home tomorrow while I head to my next city before heading home as well...I'm already sad about leaving! Well I am sad to be leaving Capri but also sad that I am now in the last part of my trip. Now I want to plan another upcoming trip (not sure when though) just so I have something else to look forward to. I wish I could stay in Italy longer. I am really starting to love it here.

So today I started off visiting the Augustus Gardens and Via Krupp (photo above). It's so amazing how blue the waters are.



I regret that I had been avoiding gelato this entire time while in Italy, as I thought it would be bad for my sore throat/cough. Yesterday, our Pompeii tour guide told me they always eat gelato here when they're sick as it soothes the throat. So now I have decided to eat as much gelato as I can in order to heal my sickness.


Then I met with Anouk at her hotel (where we saw this cat), and we headed to Anacapri on the other side of the island.

I will post more about the places we visited in Anacapri in a future post. Here is a spiral staircase in one of the churches we went. It was so scary going up and down.


This is from Villa San Michele


The beautiful view from the villa

After that, we went back to the main part of Capri. We started off with a dessert before dinner. Here we sat at one of the cafe patios in the main square. Our server, Fabrizio, was quite energetic and hilarious. I will not go into detail of what happened but at one point he unintentionally got everyone's attention (on the patio) focused on us..it was so embarrassing and funny at the same time. People were clapping and the woman at the front of our table for some reason got all excited and took a photo of us.


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482. Day 5 - Pompeii

Today was such a tiring but fun day! We went to visit Pompeii. I was excited for this when it was booked (a couple weeks ago) but I loved it soooo much more than I thought I would. I only wish we could've spent more time there and visited Herculaneum and Mount Vesuvius as well. Maybe another time. Getting there was kind of annoying though. First we took a boat to Sorrento then a train to Pompeii. Then coming back we took a train to Naples then came back on a boat. The whole journey was about 1.5-2hr (each way).

In Pompeii, we hired a personal tour guide. We booked a 4 hour tour which maybe sounds long, but actually seemed too short. We could've easily spent days exploring everywhere there. Our guide was amazing. He was really knowledgeable and I could tell he was actually really interested in explaining everything to us. It really added to the experience - I don't think I would've been as fascinated by everything if I just walked around on my own. We learned a lot about how the ancient Romans lived back then. While walking through, I kept wishing I could go back in time to see how it actually was.

If you don't know much about Pompeii, it is a UNESCO site and one of the most visited attractions in Italy. It was an ancient town that got destroyed and buried under ~6 metres of volcanic ash after Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. Most of the inhabitants were able to leave but over a thousand were unable to escape and died there. Their bodies were found still in their final position before death, as the volcanic ash hardened around them and preserved the shapes. Much of the city still remains unexcavated.

My favourite building is the Public Baths (photo above). The interiors were so intricate and beautiful.

This is what the streets all looked like there; huge uneven stones. So glad I was able to get a pair of sneakers yesterday or I probably wouldn't have survived the entire walk.

This is the theatre. Apparently they put on actual plays here sometimes. I took a lot more photos of Pompeii but I don't want to post too many now. Will save them all for my future posts and I will also go more in-depth with everything (that I learned from the tour)!

Once back in Capri, we went for dinner. I had a shrimp penne in vodka sauce.


I just checked into a new hotel (the Casa Morgano) today! This is the jacuzzi bath which I LOVE. Also love their navy blue slippers. So comfy. Will do a full review on this hotel as well soon!

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481. Day 4 - Capri & Positano

Today, Anouk & I did a private boat tour around Capri and Positano. This was the day I was looking forward to the most on my whole trip. It was an amazing experience and I'm really glad we did it...but I got extremely seasick. Combined with my existing (cough) sickness, you can imagine how I felt the whole time. I really enjoyed it but I wish I didn't get sick because most of the time I just lay down trying to sleep. Our entire boat trip was 7 hours. It was just us two plus the driver/sailor. We visited places like the Blue Grotto, Green Grotto, White Grotto, Faraglioni Rocks, the lighthouse, etc then Positano for a few hours before coming back. Positano was nice but I much prefer Capri.

After we got back, Anouk went back to her hotel while I went around searching for a pair of sneakers to wear on our visit tomorrow to Pompeii!!! Quite excited for this. Forecast says it might rain..I really really hope it won't. Then I walked around a bit on my own, exploring random streets before going for a romantic dinner with myself at Terrazza Brunella. I am getting more comfortable asking for a table for 1 at nice formal restaurants now lol. This one is actually right beside my hotel, and they have an AMAZING view.





The Faraglioni Rocks. If you look very closely on the mountain, the terra cotta coloured building is my hotel!

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