Day trip to Capri by Alan & Kathy

If you’re off exploring Italy this summer or fall, you may want to add a quick trip to the Island of Capri to your itinerary. RealTravelers Alan & Kathy prove that even if you just have a day, you can still enjoy a hefty sample of what this beautiful destination has to offer:

“So, we took the funicular up to Capri town and then a bus to Anacapri, the other town on the island. Just as the Amalfi Road, this is steep, windy and in some places simply a notch cut into a sheer rock face.

We enjoyed a lovely coffee at Anacapri before we spied the chair lift to the high point on the island and took it. What a great thing, when we saw the amazing views from the top. It was lovely and quiet up there and we soaked up the atmosphere and the sheer beauty of the place, before returning to Anacapri for an early lunch ahead of the hordes about to descend on every café in sight.

We visited an unusual “red house” that was an eclectic combination of every style and filled with quite nice paintings. I went on to see the local cathedral, which has a huge mural of Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden done in ceramic on the floor (which you don’t walk on). We wandered the back streets of Anacapri and enjoyed the old streets too narrow for cars, with houses from an earlier era, with sand mounds on the roof to make it cool in summer and warm in winter. Anacapri used to be a very proud and distinct village from Capri itself and is still quite different, with less of the tourist crowds venturing up there. The shores of the entire island itself are very steep and inhospitable except for the port that both Capri and Anacapri share.” (more…)

For more on Alan & Kathy’s trip to Italy, visit their travel page.

Useful Links on Italy
Italy Travel Guide
Capri Travel Guide