Gems of the Mediterranean Sea - Capri (Part 1)

I am a big fan of Italy, I love their food, wine, history, music, arts, architecture and most of all their entire hedonistic lifestyle, "La Dolce Vita". This is a really wonderful country with all sorts of landscapes from high, rocky mountains to breath-taking beaches and seasides. I love walking on the ancient, cobble-stoned streets and watch locals sipping their coffee and discussing matters of life. I love the adorable markets and the tiny little shops as well as the checkered-clothed tables on the streets in front of restaurants...

Back in 2008, I had a chance to visit the islands and coastline in the Gulf of Salerno during an amazing trip with a small sailing boat. It was really great, one of the best excursions of my life. You have a totally different view of these little towns and villages if you look at them from the sea. It is really amazing how high they have built houses up on the rocks. Though it was a long time ago, I can still vividly remember the picturesque towns, the wonderful view of the horizon, the squeaking sound of the seagulls, the incomparable smell of salty water and the gorgeous taste of Italian red wine. I would like to share these memories with you in this series of posts. (Sorry, blame it on the winter that I became nostalgic and started to watch holiday photos today... 😊😊😊)

I have found this map here, it shows basically all the places I have visited and going to talk about in this series:

I already wrote three posts about Amalfi (you can read them here, here and here) and one about Positano (you can read that one here) in this series but now it is time to move on and visit the wonderful Capri.

It was already evening when we arrived at the island, so this time I cannot show you the usual "this is how it looks from the water" type of pictures. But there is something even more exciting on the way to the harbour that is definitely worth sharing: the incredible rocks called Faraglioni (see also my cover photo at the top). They have a very remarkable, easy-to-recognize shape and enormous sizes. They are in front of you as if huge giants were about to leave the water. It was really amazing how we got close to them.

The harbour was nice and calm upon our arrival with a palette of fabulous colours painted in the sky...

We had a little walk in the town before going to bed, it was really impressive:

Finally, we arrived at a look-out pathway somewhere on top of the hill and we could see the Faraglioni rocks again... It was amazing how they were just sitting there in the luminescent light of the superb full moon we were having...

Well, let me continue from here in a different post with some photos taken the next morning. Stay tuned!!! 😊