My Trip
We decided to save the best trip for last, and went to the Amalfi Coast our last weekend of Italy. A weekend in the sun away from our books seemed like the best way to deal with the impending finals the next week (sorry mom and dad). We left Thursday night, explored Capri all day on Friday, Positano all day Saturday and then Pompeii Sunday – it was a packed weekend to say the least! We stayed in Sorrento but mainly to just eat and sleep so I don’t have many photos of it. However, here is a photo from Friday morning, the view right before we got on our boat to Capri (you can see our boat as the big boat in the middle of the first pier below the end of the second pier). Once we got there we went on a private island tour boat with the 60 or so other study abroad kids on the same trip, stopped by the Blue Grotto, walked around the town then took a bus up to Anacapri, the highest point on the island. From there we had the afternoon to explore, we went on the chairlift to Monte Solaro, grabbed a bite to eat and left later that afternoon. Saturday morning we left for Positano (on a bus ride so close to the end on such a curvy road I really didn’t think we would make it), did another boat cruise (this time with just our friends and a bottle of champagne), then relaxed on the beach and walked around the town. We returned to Sorrento that night, grabbed dinner and went to bed. Sunday morning we woke up bright and early heading to Pompeii but it just poured the whole day. Luckily we got in for free since it was the first Sunday of the month and our tour guide was great. We grabbed some pizza after our tour and left for Florence shortly after. We really lucked out weather wise for the 2 days we were in the sun so one rainy day wasn’t too bad and it was the beginning of May so we couldn’t complain. Click the posts below for highlights and photos from the weekend!