A Beautiful weekend in Sorrento and Capri!

What a fabulous weekend!  I am honestly running out of adjectives to describe things.  I just don't know how to explain how beautiful everything is!  Sorrento might be my favorite city so far.  It was a perfect mix between the small town feel of Tuscania, with beautiful views, and a bigger, tourist city like Rome and Florence.  I am having trouble narrowing down what pictures to post, so there are quite a few :)  From the beginning of our journey (I went with two other girls from API, Courtney and Sydney):

First, we met at the school to get our ride from Tuscania to the train station in Tarquinia, about 25 minutes away.  We got our train in Tarquinia which went to Roma (Termini).  My first train ride in Europe!  I was a little nervous to start out, because I've never traveled on my own before, but Courtney and Syndey and I managed perfectly well!  It was actually really fun to adventure on our own.  We got off in Rome and got our other train to Napoli, and then got on the Circumvesuviana (another train) to Sorrento.  We met so many people throughout, and it was fun to hear everyone's stories about where they were travelling, where they were from, etc.  When we finally got to Sorrento, we were starving, so we had lunch, and the waiter gave us free limoncello since that is something Sorrento is known for.  There were lemon trees EVERYWHERE!

Even our bed and breakfast had their own lemon trees.

We found our bed and breakfast, "Sweet Home" and got our room, and then went out to explore the city.

The views were magnificent.

Sorrento

 We walked around for a long time just taking in each view, and then had dinner. Best gnocchi I've ever had!  We found a good spot, and sat and watched the sunset.  Breathtaking.

OMG!

It was a long and busy but beautiful day!

On Saturday, we woke up a little early to go to the port and get ferry tickets to Capri.  We got on the first ferry, and arrived in Capri.  We bought breakfast at a cute cafe, window-shopped a little, and bought a map so we could explore the island.  We took a lift to the middle level of the island (we didn't have enough time to take the chair lift all the way to the top) and we walked around a lot.  We found the Arco Naturale, and then we went to Augustus Garden's which was so pretty.

El arco Naturale

 We had lunch, and then took a boat ride around the island.  Best decision.  We went all the way around the island, and it was unreal.

After the rain in the morning, there was a rainbow during our boat tour.

Look at the color of the water!

We wanted to see the blue grotto, but it was closed because of high tide and weather (it rained in Sorrento while we were in Capri, and we somehow missed the rain when it got to Capri).  We found a beach after the boat tour, and relaxed.  It was my first time ever laying out on a beach :)

Just going for a swim in the Meditteranean.  No big deal :)

We took the ferry back to Sorrento and spent the night there, had dinner, and gelato (the best gelato in Italy so far!)

Sunday we had breakfast at "Sweet Home" which was so nice.  We paid for our room, and headed out to see Sorrento for the last time.  We found a cute cafe and sat there journaling and writing postcards, and enjoyed a lemonade until it was time to catch our trains.

HAD to try lemonade in Sorrento since they are known for their lemons.  Delicious!

 We took the Circumvesuviana back to Napoli where we had some time, so we got pizza in the train station so we could say we had pizza in Naples :)

Then the train to Rome, and then to Tarquinia, and then we got our ride back to Tuscania.  What a busy, fun weekend.  It was so worth it, and I'm so glad I got to see it!

Capri