Italy 2003: Encore Tour

Part III.V: photo break

from and on the hotel terrace

down at sea level, the marina behind me

"One beautiful July morning in 1577, a Sorrentine boat from Gaeta landed at the pier of the Capo di Cervo marina (now the Marina Piccola). A person dressed like a (minister/shepherd ... probably minister) disembarked. Tall and quite complex as a person (?), noble and dignified in appearance, he ..."

Bartolomeo Capasso, 'Tasso and his family in Sorrento'

(translated by a kind friend)

leaving Capri by hydrofoil
Capri is on the right, the Italian mainland on the left

(three minutes later, the skies opened up and rain fell; everyone ran for the lower deck, but my father and I stuck it out, smiling at each other)

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