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Visiting the Island of Capri Italy!

Oh my friends I cannot say enough good things about visiting the Island of Capri in Italy!  The island landscape is beautiful beyond compare! This is one of my top 3 Italian beaches to visit!

View of Capri Top 3 Italian beaches-

Traveling to the island of Capri

If you have been following my posts all about our trip to Italy during covid you know last we were traveling in Vasto, Italy and staying in Casoli.

To get to Capri from Casoli we drove to Naples and chartered a speed boat to take us to Capri. You could take a ferry but we decided to get a speed boat for fun with our group.

speed boat ride from naples to capri

It takes about 40 minutes on the speed boat to get there and it was heaven.

boat ride to naples

We arrived and checked into our darling boutique hotel called Capri la Dolci Vita. There was no other hotel available because of covid. The owner is a friend of a friend and he opened it up for us.

We had dinner at the wonderful restaurant Da Giorgo and we had a view of the bay of Naples.

Visiting the island of capri

The food was amazing!

What is Capri like

Surrounded by turquoise blue water a gorgeous jagged coastline and encircled by the famous faraglioni (sea stacks), it is just stunning.

View from Anacapri

The town square area is charming with lots of boutique hotels, restaurants, bakeries, all kinds of shopping and of course gelato!

It was weird to be here when there was a curfew in place. It was empty by 10PM.

capri town square
capri at night

Visiting Anacapri

The next morning after a delicious pastry breakfast at a little cafe, we took a local bus to the town of Anacapri. This town reminded me a little bit of Laguna Beach with lots of little shops and art galleries.

anacapri

Anacapri shopping is much more affordable than the main center shops of Capri. We found lots of beautiful hand made pottery, and lots of linen clothing.

anacapri shopping

I found a beautiful long white linen tunic that I can’t wait to wear! Plus cute dish towels and serving spoons that have hand painted handles.

Our two youngest granddaughters look so cute in the Capri lemon dresses! Baby Georgia’s dress is handmade! They are truly Capri Island babes 🙂

capri clothes for children

At one point we were walking down one of the streets and saw this cute man selling his wife’s hand made knitted baby booties and hats. Since most of us are grandma’s we couldn’t pass this up.

italian lady knitted baby booties

The cute lady came out of her house and we all got a photo with her. So so sweet! In fact when she heard we were taking a picture she ran back into her house to change her sweater 🙂

The chair lift in Capri

After shopping we headed to a chair lift that took us up to Monte Solaro. OH MY GOSH! Seriously this is like being on top of the world.

chairlift  in anacapri

The chair lift is a one seater so you are by yourself and you keep going up up up. You have a total 360 degree view and you really feel like your are on top of the world.

chairlift in anacapri 2

Look at these beautiful gardens that you can see from the chair lift.

I would do this again and again because it is so spectacular. When you get to the top there is a restaurant and total views everywhere you look. You can see Naples and Mount Vesuvius in the distance.

Lunch at Da Gelsomina

Okay so if you have been following my trip, you have seen that we have eaten at some amazing places. This was the Crème de la crème of restaurants!

da gelsomina restaurant in Anacapri

Da Gelsomina is one of Capri’s landmark restaurants, where the same family has been preparing local specialties for generations. They use produce that they pick from their huge gardens.

da glesomina garden
caprese

So much amazing food! It just kept coming and was so delicious! This was stuffed roasted red peppers.

da gelsomina food

Stuffed zucchini flowers were to die for! Everyone wanted more!

fried zucchini flowers

Fresh swordfish melted in your mouth!

da gelsomina swordfish

After lunch we took a little walk through the gardens to a look out point. Once again how can this get any better but it does!

The look out point is spectacular and you could just get lost looking at the blue water.

You can see through the water from way above! Isn’t this amazing?

sparkling water

Lighthouse Beach on Capri

This is not like the beaches where I grew up in California. The beach area here at Lighthouse beach is more of a rocky bay where you can dive directly into the crystalline water.

LIghthouse beach in capri

There is a snack bar, restaurant and during summer season you can rent beach chairs and umbrella’s. Once again the views are magnificent.

The men of our group decided to jump in the water. It was very cold! But they stayed in and swam around and tried to convince us ladies that it wasn’t all that cold haha.

Dining in Capri

After spending the afternoon at the beach we were all pretty tired. We got back to the hotel, showered and got ready to go to dinner.

There weren’t many restaurants open for dinner because of Covid so we went back to Da Giorgo the same place we ate last night. We all had pizza 🙂

We ended the night grabbing some amazing Gelato and yummy bakery treats at Buonocore. We may have gone there every night but who is counting hahah The best gelato and pastries on Capri.

There was a curfew in place so we had to be back to our hotel by 10pm otherwise we would have stayed out all night 🙂

To learn more about our Palazzo Ricci and to come with us on our next tour go to our website.

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  1. Joanne says

    August 31, 2022 at 2:10 pm

    Oh wow; that does look amazing! I Just love how blue the water is and so clear too.

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  2. Rita C at Panoply says

    June 10, 2021 at 4:42 am

    Just stunning! I think I would’ve loved being there without all the people. You had the island to yourselves!

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  3. Marie says

    June 9, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    It has been really fun to travel virtually with you on your Italy posts!

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    • Karins Kottage says

      June 9, 2021 at 9:01 pm

      Aww thank you Marie! It allows me to re-live it all again sharing my photos 🙂

      Hugs,
      Karin

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  4. Cindy Rust says

    June 9, 2021 at 12:23 pm

    Omgoodness, your trip looks amazing!! I bet you are having the time of your life!! Thanks for sharing parts of the world my eyes probably won’t see :). And those two grandbabies on the bed are just adorable!

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    • Karins Kottage says

      June 9, 2021 at 9:06 pm

      Thank you Cindy! We had such an amazing trip! You should come with us next time! We are going again in September! If you are interested let me know and I will send you a link to our website with all the info. My two granddaughters just melt my heart 🙂

      Hugs,
      Karin

      Reply
  5. Dawn Gilbert says

    June 9, 2021 at 10:20 am

    Those are such amazing pictures Karin. Thanks so much for sharing them, such beauty that some people cannot see without your sharing them. I love seeing the wonderful things that you share. Enjoy,…. and many hugs from myself to you and your family !!

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    • Karins Kottage says

      June 9, 2021 at 10:26 am

      Dawn thank you for your sweet comments! Capri is so magical and I wish my pictures could do it more justice. It is just breathtakingly beautiful. There is so much to see and explore there.
      Hugs to you my friend.

      Karin

      Reply
  6. Sharon Bell Ingram says

    June 9, 2021 at 10:12 am

    Did you make it to the Blue Grotto or up to Tiberius’ summer villa? It would take a week and you still wouldn’t see all the beauty Capri has to offer. You were so lucky and blessed to go!

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    • Karins Kottage says

      June 9, 2021 at 10:25 am

      Sharon, the blue grotto was closed because of covid 🙁 We have missed going in the two times we have been there. The time before that there was a huge line to get in. I can’t wait to go in and see it! I have not gone to to Tiberius summer villa. I will next time! There is sooo much to see! I love it there!
      Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a sweet comment.

      Hugs,
      Karin

      Reply

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