Hotel Breakfast. This is my 4th trip to Italy. This is the FIRST time I have seen a chef so proud of what he has accomplished for people and the group absolutely LOVING what they saw at this morning’s breakfast!
When we arrived, right at 7am, the chef came out of the kitchen as we all lined up for the buffet. He wanted to make sure that WE ALL ate the right foods! I realize I am on a tour and this was pre-arranged, however I have travelled a lot and this does not happen very often – that a person genuinely takes an interest in making sure you eat the right thing. Unfortunately, I did not get a picture of the chef! I tried several times but he moved too fast! Please see below the two gluten free displays for breakfast….
Interesting meeting: Our group had finished eating and almost everyone was gone, when I was getting up to leave and a lady said to the chef (who I was talking to from my seat at the table), and she said that she had Celiac Disease and what can she eat on the buffet that is gluten free? I motioned for him to talk to her and he figured out from that, she was not part of our tour. He showed her the buffet (pictures below) and her eyes almost fell out of her sockets when she saw the sweets table! I then asked her where she was from (Australia) and told her that there was a tour of 30 Celiacs from Canada who had just eaten breakfast and help herself! I left her with the same shocked look on her face – it was priceless!
Onto Capri now! From the hotel, we took city tourist minivans to the dock to take the ferry to Capri. We actually took the same ferry that Andrew and I had taken the year before! After the crossing, which was a bit bumpy and fun, we were lead to the funicular to go up to the Capri town. This was awesome as last time we were here, we had to take narrow minivans up the side of the island on VERY narrow roads! By this time I was pretty exhausted and there was a 20 minute walk next to do around the town of Capri- which I already had been on last year. So I sat down on a bench that was in the piazza in front of the exit at the top of the funicular. As most tours had left the area by then, it was fairly quiet and peaceful. It was one of the most beautiful places I had hung out in Italy, until the area started to fill up with the people arriving from more ferries arriving on Capri. Soon afterword, Liz showed up and we ate our lunch at the scenic bench prior to going down the funicular to go to the “Around Capri by boat” tour that we had booked. I was really looking forward to this boat trip in our free time on Capri as the boat was advertised as wheelchair accessible!
Liz and I successfully found the correct dock to redeem our boat tickets and the man pointed to a large dingy for us to get into. I pointed out that was not wheelchair accessible so he then changed our tickets and told us to go to Pier 23 and that boat was wheelchair accessible. So off we walked to Pier 23 from Pier 0 where we had been. Sure the boat was bigger but the gangplank onto the boat and the stairs down were defiantly NOT accessible or safe! What to do? Well, as there were some strong men manning the boat, I decided to get onto it, with my walker folded up, being carried onto the boat ahead of me. I got onto the gang plank and just as I did, a wave hit and it is good I still have some balance as I almost ended up in the ocean! The man guiding me grabbed me to make sure I was able to get across the gap between the plank and stairs and then I was onto the boat. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip around Capri – it was interesting to see the town of Anacapri where we had been to on the cruise ship, which is located on the back of the island of Capri along with where the different “grottos” are including the famed “Blue Grotto” where people lie in rowboats to get into a cave like structure which has a blue tint to the sea due to the light from up high. When we went by on the boat at 2pm the line up to get into the Blue Grotto was about 2 hours long!
Back on Capri, we had about 90 minutes until we were going to meet up with our tour group – some of whom had taken some optional tours through Trafalgar. While looking for the public washroom, Liz and I found a cute rocky beach nearby, so after partaking in using the local public toilets which is always and adventure, I decided to have a lay down on the beach while Liz went for a walk. She even found some free public toilets on her walk which she was quite proud of! In the end, a group of us ended up on the beach waiting for our trip back, however I was the only one getting the whole body massage treatment by laying on the stony beach!
In the end, despite wearing high value sun screen, I did get TOO MUCH sun either hanging out on the Piazza or on the boat going round Capri. In the end, we all successfully gathered and made it back from Capri in one piece albeit a bit tired after a fun filled day!
Once back to Sorrento, we had to wait for the city provided “shuttle vans” like we took down to the ferries, to take us back up the cliff (yes there is a road that winds back and forth up again) to our next hotel.
For dinner, we had another planned one not far from the hotel… We went to a seafood restaurant and had a lovely meal of FRESH gf tomato gnocchi, a white fish (too salty and sauce was horrid), with the non fish eaters having gf Margherita pizzas which most of us were jealous of! Our desert was melt in your mouth gluten free lemon cake! Then a walk back to the hotel to burn those carbs!
Tomorrow is calling for rain – which is perfectly fine as we are on the bus driving to Assisi! See you there!


















































