Piazza Porto Azzurro

Today was another amazing day, though we walked forever! 26km which is way more than we normally walk (I normally don’t plan more than 15km, 20 maybe once and a while if it is flat), but somehow my feet are still good and not hurting from all the walking (and we just took an after dinner wander cause we were both doing well after a long day)! So that is great!

So we got up and got going this morning and headed into town to check it out. There is supposed to be a market on Thursdays here, but I forgot it is a holiday so there was none, but we still enjoyed wandering the town. It is small and overall not the prettiest town we have been to, but the vibe is really great and we both really loved it. I thought we should have gone into town before now cause it was so nice! I loved just walking around and seeing all the things. And in our wanders we found another bakery with that Schiacciata bread - this one was almost a cracker. And I asked what the other one was and had corn in it so of course we had to try that. Both were delicious!

Then we headed off for our hike for the day which I will put in a different post. When we were wandering this morning we spied on the menus in town and found a restaurant that sounded good for dinner that was in the main square so we went back there this evening and oh, it was wonderful! We got beans and onions for an appetizer and it was so good. Then I got aglio olio pepperoncini which is my favorite and so good as well. Raymond went for the veggie pizza and it was huge so he was cutting off the crust for me to try and the dough was delicious. After eating my pasta I was dipping it in my spicy garlic oil and if that was an option for dinner, spicy garlic oil and Pizze dough, I would have ordered that and been so happy! Oh it was amazing! And not very expensive. We keep being surprised at how cheap the food and drinks are when we go out.

After dinner we had another little wander going down some roads we missed this morning and found a gelato place with peanut gelato I could eat so we decided to try that. I was expecting like a peanut butter taste, but somehow it tasted like eating salted peanuts which is not what I was expecting. It was almost savory and really good even though I am not a huge fan of peanuts. Much better than the last gelato place!

I’m already so sad we are going to be leaving here tomorrow! I did look to see if we could catch a later ferry, but the car race starts right after our current one so no point is spending more time (and the roads going into the ferry town close right after our ferry). But man I wish I could have a few more days! I feel like we could easily spend a week on this island and go to the beaches and hike around and go try all the restaurants in town and it would be wonderful. It’s not that big, we drove most of it yesterday, but we would have a great time exploring! I’m currently sitting outside on our patio enjoying the sunset which is just amazing. I did not expect to enjoy Elba as much as we have. I did think about doing 4 days instead of 3 when I was planning, but then I was like what are we going to do on the 4th day? As I didn’t have that much to do here. Now that we have been we will definitely be back for a longer stay! Tomorrow we explore the rest of the island we haven’t seen yet and then on to the next stop.Read more