Sorrento

Well, weàve all settled into Sorrento, and I cannot find the apostrophe on the Italian keyboard...oh, who would have thought, tucked up there beside the zero. Excellent. No more çàçs... Wait, now I can't find the quotation marks...ahhh, of course, shift 2. Let's just hope we don't need an "at" symbol.

The town of Sorrento is really quite nice. There are a number of busy piazzas and cafes and restaurants everywhere downtown. The streets in the shopping area downtown are really narrow and all made of cobblestones. It's really how I pictured Italy. There are even men with accordions singing to cafe patrons in the evenings. Very cultural.

Today, we took the ferry to the island of Capri. It took about 25 minutes and when we arrived, we got on another boat that gave us a full tour of the island. We saw the White Grotto (full of white stalactites), the Green Grotto (Ms.McGoey remembers them saying something about copper in the rocks causing this effect), and we saw the famous Blue Grotto. It was really impressive. A surly Italian man takes you into this cave on a little row boat that holds no more than 4 people. The cave is all dark, except for the water which is a brilliant blue colour. I'm afraid that my camera will not be able to do this justice, but that seems to happen a lot of these trips. I should just stick to photographing my pizza.

After the boat tour, we took the funicular (incline railway) up to the top of the town of Capri and did some shopping. They had pretty much every fancy store imaginable, and when I say we did some shopping, I mean that I was politely ignored each time I entered a Dolce & Gabana or Prada store. I say each time, because they actually have multiples of these in Capri. It's kind of like McDonalds; you can go to any one anywhere in the world and get the same big mac. I can go in any Dolce & Gabana store and they can immediately tell that I cannot afford their clothing.

Tomorrow we are having class in the morning, followed by a full afternoon at Positano Beach. I think most of us got quite a bit of sun today, but I don't think we'll get too many complaints about a beach day.

Hope you're all having lots of beach weather at home. See you soon!