Rome to Naples to Capri

Our Italy trip was the yen and yang of trips. The relaxing beautiful waters of Capri followed by running around Rome chasing 25-year old archaeologists/tour guides for 8 hours a day. The first part of the trip was to Capri.


We arrived in Rome from London about midnight. There were no shuttles, cabs or hardly any people at the airport. Five of us jumped into a 'gypsy' cab. Nick and I alone paid $35 for a five minute ride, but we felt like if we didn't take this cab, we might be stuck at the airport overnight.

We stayed at the Hilton Rome Airport. The room was fine and we had free breakfast in the morning. After breakfast, we hopped in a cab to go to Roma Termini (train station). London had Audis, BMWs, Mercedes. Rome has tiny clown cars and there is a reason for that. Traffic is terrible. Nicky and I had a conversation about what would it take to get a traffic ticket in this country. We are pretty sure they don't have them. All the cars are dented and crashed. This was quite the ride. It seemed we were going about 90 mph on the highway and our driver was tailgating other clown cars. However, in Rome, they are polite about it. When someone is tailgating, the lead driver pulls into the middle lane and lets the tailgater pass. What a concept. I would love to see that happen on the Bush.

View out train window

Roma Termini is crowded and lots of beggars. We paid a woman $10 to show us how to get train tickets and find our platform. I think this train was about $100 for the both of us and no frills. This was the Frecciarossa train. The ride was a little over an hour. You get assigned seats in a specific car. Each train ride we had to walk a mile as our cars were always at the end.

We got to Naples. The traffic is scarier here than Rome. We took a cab to the port. I'm wearing my capris for Capri. Plus, I heard Jacqueline Kennedy always wore her capris in Capri with her custom-made sandals. I'm wearing my super comfortable Skechers with memory foam that are washable. I bought two pairs just for this trip and that was a great investment, but not real cute.

The large boat that says SNAV is the fast ferry.

Next was the high speed ferry to Anacapri which took about 45 minutes. This ferry had a bar onboard. The one on the way back did not. 




We arrived in Capri. We had no working phones.....or so we thought. We needed to call for the hotel shuttle, but instead we stopped at Limoncello Cafe where we had Limoncellos and connected to their Wifi.

My man with a smile on his face

Italian lemons are HUGE

So I'm sitting there and I hear a familiar sound. Bruno Mars. It's my ring tone. I answer the phone and its my son wishing me a Happy Mother's day. My phone was accepting Wifi calls in Italy. We decided to just take a cab because we were too challenged to make a European phone call. When we told the cab driver where we were staying, he called the hotel shuttle for us and wouldn't take our money. Everyone was super friendly and nice in the Isle of Capri.

Shuttle ride to hotel

For dinner, we went to Materita. It is on the square by the church. The church bells go off every 15 minutes. Kids, dogs, babies everywhere in the square. Kids run around chasing pigeons. Me and Nick joked the entire trip that we were going to "kick a pigeon". No worries. No animals were injured or kicked on this trip.  Nick had  Margherita pizza and I had pasta with shrimp. The pasta in Italy is very al dente which was okay with me. So the shocker here. I've only had pickled olives out of a jar. Here I had a 'real' olive not pickled and it was awesome.