Sorrento to Capri – Day 3!

This morning I woke up and ran down to get breakfast before heading off to Capri for the day. I took the complimentary shuttle down to the center and walked down to the port as I did yesterday. This time I bought a ticket to Capri! There were two options, a ferry for 9.50 Euro, or a different type of ferry called a “Jetboat” which was 14.50 Euro and it gets you there much faster. Normally I’m in no rush, and I wasn’t in a rush today at all. I could have cared less what time I got there. The weather was nice, just heating up to around 65, 70 degrees but it was still early! The problem was that the next “slow” ferry wasn’t for a few hours so I was pretty much forced to take the jet boat to Capri. I bought a round trip ticket for 29 Euro, which I felt was pretty expensive, but whatever I was going to make the best of the day.

As we were cruising across the ocean to the Island of Capri the weather started to go sour. Real sour! I’m talking a giant black cloud sitting over the island of Capri. I couldn’t believe it. It took about 15-20 minutes and we arrived at the port of Capri. What do you know, it was pouring! Absolutely pouring. I told myself that I’d make the best of it so I bought a ticket for the cable car to get up to Ana Capri, a nice lookout that looks over the whole coast of Capri. The ticket for the cable car cost 1.40 Euro which I thought was pretty good. At the top you then need to take a small rickety bus to another point where you then need to take a chair lift, yep like the ones you use at a ski mountain. Finally you arrive at Ana Capri, you lose your breath due to the view, and the rest is happily ever after.

Unfortunately I didn’t get that far! As I got off the cable car I realized that it was pouring buckets. I decided to take the bus up a little further to see if the time would pass and the rain would stop but that didn’t happen either. When I finally arrived at the top where you would normally get the chair lift to the absolute top, I gave up. It was pouring rain, and it wasn’t stopping anytime soon. I ended up taking a taxi down with a few random people because it was raining so hard and the line for the bus was miles long. Everyone wanted to get down and get the hell out of there.

At the bottom I waited for a couple hours for my ferry, and spent more than I should have on junk food due to boredom. I was really disappointed with the day. Capri was a place that I was really looking forward to seeing. Unfortunately I picked the worst day, and I’ll just have to scrap my plans of seeing the top of Ana Capri. Well, tomorrow is another day, and I’m probably going to lounge by the pool for a few hours before deciding what I’ll visit next…

Unfortunately I didn’t get too many good photos today due to the weather… Grrrr!

In the end… Life Is Good!