Capri, Anicapri Sep. 10

After viewing the mount and Pompeii, we headed to the Naples port to catch the 45 min hydrofoil ferry to the small island of Capri. Just before this our tour guide told us that she needed 10 volunteers to accept staying at another hotel than the 4-star one set up for our group. Seems they overbooked us. Like G says - we are like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed shit. So G and I volunteered - good 'ole Cdns. Good for us too cuz our little hotel was up the shopping walkway and in a quieter area. Oh, I forgot to tell you, like mushrooms, we were never told that we weren't staying in Capri but , you guessed it, right uuuuuppppp the blasted mountain on a set of switchbacks that even G wondered how people managed. The town was called Anacapri and was a smaller more quaint and adorable set-in-the mtn picturesque place. All roads were only one car width and had cross walks that went nowhere. The homes sprouted out of the sides of the mountains and hung there like Lego. At the port, we were shuffled (more like marmaladed, you know, jammed) into two small buses and then we noisily, swerving into little safe spots on the sides of the mtn, made our way up.
We stayed for 3 days and spent oodles of time walking over the cobbles, took a chair lift up the mtn side to view the island and ocean, visited museums and shopped. Lots of lemons growing, lots of vineyards and sooo many flowers. Not quite as stark white as Greece but beautiful.

Tour of harbour, A walk on the wild side

After a lazy morning we took the S-Bahn to the harbour for a 2-hour boat trip in and around the harbour ships and piers. It's a massive area where we saw ships from all over the world unloading cargo and moving about in the water and our little boat was right in amongst them. This harbour is very old and the buildings all around it show their age and need for attention. Many of them have been torn down and replaced with new age fancy architecture. Lots of wharf sites to walk around for the tourists.
After the walk and ride, we started walking again as usual and got lost again, as usual, and ended up in a very shady area. We were getting hungry but this area wasn't one where we would stop to eat. When we headed down to the underground station, we came face to face with 7 cops and
3 subway guards. Anyone that looked at them sideways or even twitched a finger were pulled over and sent to the cops for checking.
Of course I had to ask what was going on and was told that too many people are taking the subways for free or doing drugs etc. down in the tunnels. Sounds like any big city to me that we've ever been in but it sure was nice to see a clean up going on.
We headed to a street that we had once walked down that is like a busy street at home for us and stopped to have a typical german meal. We will spend the rest of the evening in the spa again and enjoy our surroundings.