European Moto Trip - Back to Italy: Day 4

Today we spent the day in Capri.

We woke up at 9:30am as we have been doing in La Grande Medusa and went to breakfast.

After breakfast we always sit in the gardens for a while reading and enjoying nature.

We then got ready and rode motorbike to Sorrento where we left the bike in the motorbike parking at the port and caught the hydrofoil (quite fast boat) to the island of Capri.

We docked at the Marina Grande and then took the cable car to Capri high in the mountain from where we took some nice pictures looking down onto the marina.

We then walked the Via Krupp which is a historic switchback paved footpath on the island, connecting the Charterhouse of San Giacomo and the Gardens of Augustus area with Marina Piccola. Commissioned by German industrialist Friedrich Alfred Krupp, the path covers an elevation difference of about 100 m.

Built between 1900 and 1902, ostensibly Via Krupp was a connection for Krupp between his luxury hotel, Grand Hotel Quisisana, and Marina Piccola, where his marine biology research vessel lay at anchor.

We stopped at the Gardens of Augustus which are a retreat into a natural paradise, complete with unforgettable panoramas. The garden's tranquility and natural beauty is nothing if not therapy.

From the vantage point of the Gardens, apart from the splendid views of the sea, are fantastic photographic vistas. To one side the undulating roofs and picturesque bell tower of the St. James' Certosa (Charterhouse), a Carthusian Monastery, lie in the foreground below the Gardens.

Ahead, the Faraglioni rocks rise from the blue of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

We then made our way zigzagging down the mountain to Marina Piccola where we had lunch in a restaurant right of top of a rock overlooking the sea. Extraordinary views.

After lunch I went for a swim which was very cooling. Water was not cold at all even though we are in October already.

We then took a bus and marveled at the dexterity of Italian bus driver as he took us up the mountain back to Capri where we took the cable car down to the Marina Grande.

As we arrived about one hour before boat departed we had time to walk the Marina Grande, take pictures and have a Limoncello Gelato ... Very nice.

As we got into the boat we looked up and the sky was getting too grey for our liking and although we hurried to hotel after getting off the boat we still got rained upon quite heavily.

We stayed in hotel for dinner. For me the food highlight was the cheese platter although the vanilla and chocolate gelato was also very nice.

Tomorrow we leave the Napoli area which we have thoroughly enjoyed and make our way North to Rome.

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Via Krupp