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January 11, 2008

Back in Sorrento: A ferry later and all the wiser

I awoke early on Friday morning, around 5:30 am, before the alarm had a chance to go off. We were scheduled to arrive in Naples at 7 am, but what do you know, we were early. Sure enough, we were pulling into the port. We hastily got everything together, during a time like this it was hard not to wish that the ferry ride was longer. Longer ride=more sleep! We got off the ferry, passing carabinieri who did not seem to care that Ollie had obviously spent the night in the cabin. It was pitch dark outside and we had no idea of our exact location and where we needed to be in order to catch the hydrofoil to Sorrento. I'm not going to lie, the next half hour was quite stressful. It involved trying to speak with a cop who was all drugged out and insisted on repeating "F-E-R-R-Y" over and over to us in English, being surrounded by more stray dogs, and finally Reed having a cab ride from hell to an ATM machine. By the time we got to the hydrofoil office it was around 7 and we learned the first hydrofoil for Sorrento was at 9:30. It started to rain, which made the long wait even longer.

By 12ish we had arrived back at Casa Mazzola and were glad to take a shower and go to sleep!

Saturday was pretty uneventful. We were still tired and the weather was pretty bad: cold, cloudy, and rainy. Reed and I went down to Sant'Agnello to drop off some laundry and then walked around Sorrento for a bit. We went to dinner at La Rosa for dinner with two other guests who were staying at Casa Mazzola who were from Virginia. Ironically, the guys name was also Reed spelled the same way! What a coincidence!

Tomorrow we head to the mystical island of Capri, braving wind, waves, and storms!

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