It's Thursday and the weather is a repeat of yesterday - glorious! Unfortunately, the sea conditions are the same and it now seems certain that we will not get to the Grotto - bummer!
As write this, I'm watching a "cigarette" type speedboat pound through the chop, throwing about a thirty-foot rooster tail behind it - I have a serious case of envy - Damn, I like this place!
At the moment, there are three "mega-yachts", one at least 200 feet long, riding at anchor just off the beach. There are about a dozen smaller yachts and a score or more speedboats, of various types; some anchored, others just lazily plying the water within a stones throw of the beach. This an island, so of course, there are boats; but there is some serious money tied up in fiberglass and marine plywood here - not to mention supplies of marine gasoline and diesel fuel. This is boat heaven!
Yesterday afternoon and evening we searched out some of the places that Giada De Laurentiis featured in her Capri special, on the food network. They were worth the work to find them! They'd have been even more fun if we had Giada's budget!
We had dinner in a small restaurant off an even smaller alley, not far from the main piazza in Capri. Jane had calamari , cooked in the best tasting tomato sauce I've ever had - I had grilled calamari that was to die for! The free-falling dollar against the Euro (thanks, George) has caused the $29 dollar bottle of Brunelo, that we came to love so much when we were in Tuscany, in 2005, to rise to around $50 a bottle. But we've found a Sicilian red, Tancredi, that's wonderful and we enjoyed another bottle of that, with our meal. At $35 a bottle, it's hardly a bargain, but we hope to find it at a better price, when we get to Sicily, next week.
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