ABOARD THE PACIFIC PRINCESS AND CAPRI

We boarded our ship and set sail at 6:00 on Saturday. As this is Tina’s first cruise, she got acquainted with the ship and our cabin. Usually not much doing the first night anyway. Dinner was lovely and the evening passed by pleasantly.

Next morning we were up early for our tour of Capri and Ana Capri. The ship was anchored and we had to take the tender into the port of Naples. That was as much of Naples as we saw as we walked a short way to get on a ferry to take us over to the island of Capri. We learned that this is one of the most expensive places to own property in Europe and the stores indicate that this is only for the rich and famous. Fortunately there are shops with trinkets for the tourists. All the big name designer fashion moguls have their designs in prestigious shops. They post people at the door to carefully screen the potential buyers from the lookyloos. We were able to buy some postcards and a few souvenirs – those shops welcomed us!

Today we met Michelle – originally from Toronto and now with the services and deployed in Afghanistan. How wonderful to meet such a nice young lady. (I emphasize the young part!) We stayed together throughout the tour and as she is on the cruise on her own….we were able to have our dining arrangements changed so that we can be a threesome! Knowing that we will always share her company at dinner makes mealtime very special and I get the feeling she feels the same way.


We did a walking tour and it was lovely. Ana Capri means over Capri so as you can imagine – we were quite high up on this rocky island. We had a view of Mt. Vesuvius (sp) but the weather wasn’t clear enough to get a good picture. The day was hot and sunny, but there was a mist obscuring a good view.

I can’t talk about Capri without mentioning the size of the lemons – OMG anyone who says look at the melons on that one – hasn’t seen the lemons of Capri! (hmmm just realized that lemon and melon are the same letters – just rearranged hmmm). They are ginormous! One would have to be careful following a recipe there that called for the juice or zest of one lemon!! We tried Lemoncella (a liqueur made of lemons) – it was wonderful and we tasted chocolates and other sweets – all including lemon. What a delightful taste experience.

To get up to Ano Capril, we rode a tour bus and on the way down, we took a small train called a Funicular. This is an electric train that goes down the very steep grade and I’m guessing the grade would be about 45 degrees. It was only Euro 1.40 to ride it down. I couldn’t tell you how many hair pin turns the bus took getting us up to the town – but the Funicular was a straight ride down.

We took the ferry back to Naples and then our tender back to the ship and once again our feet were ready for a rest…and then dinner with our new friend – what a perfect end to a lovely day!

Oh and my nose and other part is healing nicely!