Grosseto & Elba Island

Today we packed up and headed off to our next destination, Elba. We had to catch a ferry to Elba and it was a few hours from where we were staying so we couldn’t catch an early one. The schedule wasn’t that often so the one we caught was at 5pm, so I had a couple of options for things to do beforehand, but none were really great. I did want to go check out this National park in the water, but that added more drive time and it would have been tight trying to do a hike and get to the ferry so we decided to just head into Grosseto and see what we could see. I did find an all vegan bakery there so we planned to have lunch and treats so that would hopefully be worth it!

Well Grosseto was…a town. The old town wasn’t very picturesque or cute or anything. It was just bleh. The first three photos are almost the only photos I took walking around in town (I took one other one of the side of the church. The street that looks nice was one of 2 tiny one block sections of streets that did! Everything else was just meh).

It was also pretty small, so I didn’t know what we were going to do after we ate lunch…we still had some time to kill, but thought I will look and see what I see while we eat. The lunch place had sandwiches in focaccia which were just alright. The focaccia was delicious, but the fillings were a bit odd. Not bad, but not something I would go back for. But the treats! We got a raspberry pistachio cake which was delicious! Not too sweet and I loved it. Also some pistachio mousse and a chocolate mousse - both were delicious, though very sweet. The chocolate on top of the chocolate one was like hot fudge - yum! It was a big lunch which was good as we would have a late dinner. We also got some treats to take with us - a croissant, a pan au chocolate with pistachio, and a “cinnamon roll”. Can’t wait to try them tomorrow!

While eating lunch (the restaurant was just outside the old city walls) I noticed that there was a walkway on top of the walls as I saw people up there! So that was our after lunch plan. We wandered until we found a way up and that was much nicer. Still not amazing, but I always love walking on old city walls!

Then it was time to head on to the ferry which was about an hour and 20 min long and it was gorgeous weather! The city from the water is Portoferraio, where the ferry docked. We headed right to our place and wow! This view is amazing!! Out over the water and mountains and the sun sets right there! I’m still sitting outside even though it is cold as the colors are still gorgeous! Tomorrow we hike around and see what we can see! Czytaj więcej