..my sister and I steal away from the wedding buzz and board the chair lift (at 8 Euro) to Monte Solaro from Anacapri. Monte Solaro is the highest part of Capri, towering 589 meters above sea level, and boasting a 360° panorama of the island of Capri with a wonderful view of the Faraglioni, the Amalfi and Sorrento coastlines and the Marina Piccola and the Gulf of Naples..You have to kick off your sandals and carry them in your hand not to lose them during the long trip up the mountain. The hills below under the cable trail are studded with hats and lost sandals..
The bare feet shown here are mine!
Climbing up, up and away. Anacapri below.
Terraces and my sister in the front chair. She yells to me that she once had to jump from a cable chair in the snowy Alps when she got stuck many years ago when she was a ski instructor in Austria. Great! I yell back. Not easily scared by little sisters!
Hideous burial shrines are built below on the slopes.Here a spooky mannequin is neatly dressed (in the clothes of the deceased?)
When we arrive at the top, a heavy mist shrouds the Faraglioni rocks below at Marina Piccola.
As we devour one of the most wonderful ice sorbets - gelati di limoni- you can imagine, the mist gradually give way and and we get our money´s worth of sighting. The sun breaks through and the butterflies roams and beacons among the flowers of the mountain. Even the smells of the typical mountain bush is now released and I can smell the scent of thyme and oregano of the Mediterranian mixing with the strong Italian coffee from the small bar here on the very peak of Capri..
The Faraglioni. Photo from the following clear day´s boat trip around the island.
The newly weds (to the left) with some of the wedding guests have just been passing through the hole of the famous Faraglioni rock. Anders - Sweden´s ambassador in Rome and now the bride´s father-in-law - is donning the white Borsalino to the right .
