October 28 Sorrento - Capri

Getting in the tender this morning was “exciting”. The small boat kept crashing into the ship as the staff slowly manoeuvred each passenger on board. With many older passengers, it was painfully slow. This is the 1st time I fault them. We were lined up in the gangway at least 30 minutes waiting to disembark and didn’t know what the delay was. They could / should have told us.
Consequently we were about an hour late getting on the boat to take us to Capri. As we’d missed our scheduled ship, our guide Mena put us on another one but it meant we had to stand the whole way - 25 minutes - and it was rocky. There were 40 in our group - 1 older gentleman with a walker. Needless to say we inched slowly towards the Funicular to head half way up the mountain. The scene at the topic was chaotic - masses of people following signs.

Finally, we were freed to do our own thing. Away from the crowds it was lovely. Needless to say we walked down the numerous stairs rather than take the crowded funicular.

That night we arranged to meet my new best friend Charlie & his wife Linda. Turns out it was his birthday so we got to celebrate with him.
A note about Charlie - during the Carthage tour he approached me to say I had a double, Karen, living in New Mexico. He said he was in love with her in elementary school until high school, when she dumped him.
We were going to join Sy & Colleen for dinner - this was her first meal out in 3-4 days as she’d been really sick. In the end she decided just to have a quiet dinner with Sy, so we ate with Charlie & Linda - and learned a lot about them.Read more