Coast of Capri

Day 9: Thursday, Nov. 11, Veterans' Day in the US
(from George's journal)This morning we took a jet foil to Capri, a graceful rocky pile of limestone off the southern arm of the Sorrento Peninsula, which encloses the Bay of Napoli. Naples is across the bay. We are now just above the instep of the boot, in an area colonized by the Greeks as early as 600 BC. The whole effect is different, full of space and light and playfulness that put me in mind of the Greek islands we visited in 2003, where I actually went into a real estate office to enquire about renting an apartment, and where, of all the places we've been, the one I would most willingly return. No wonder Augustus came here to relax and Tiberias spent his last 11 years here, increasingly isolated and ineffective. There would have been time to walk to Tiberias' villa, but the tour guide did not make that clear. Their first gaffe' that I can see. We did walk with the guide through the village to the south side, to a beautiful view of the bay and some gardens originally owned by the Krups, makers of the German armaments and in sight of a pink building where Churchill and Eisenhower met during WW II. We had a nice lunch with Janice in the town square (a margarita pizza- nothing to do with tequilla. It means plain).