After forever - my summer blog

2008 has been interesting as well as challenging. So, Leo wanted to treat me to a one week, get-away-from-it-all holiday. We had booked for the last week of August, the last week of the summer. He had booked us at hotel that had its own private beach. The goal was to switch off and bask in the sun. Unfortunately, the Hotel had lost our confirmation (don't ask) and we weren't as mad as we should have been. I told Leo all that mattered, was that we were together, for better or worse. It was going to be amazing anyway.

The hotel apologized for the inconvenience and had arranged for us to stay at their sister hotel, but it didn't have its own private beach. It wasn't even near the sea (which is what we wanted), it was in the middle of the mountains! Which wasn't at all promising. However, it had a pool and 2 free dinners so we were happy.

Monday.

Was when this all had happened. After we settled in and everything, we saw they had a pool which we readily took a dip in. Dinner was somewhat formal and they denied Leo entrance for being in shorts and slippers. We changed into something more "decent" lets say and were pleasantly surprised with dinner. They had buffet salad bar and deserts!!!! Oh that was so fun! One table full of fruits...figs, watermelon, apples...yum! and one table full of pastries!We stuffed ourselves until we were sick. In fact, Leo could hardly walk back to the room.

Tuesday

We decided to take the car and go to Sorrento City proper and check out the ferry schedules to Capri. It was such a freaking nightmare to drive! I was honestly stressed out. When we got back to the hotel, Leo and I decided that we were going to go to the City with the shuttle bus service the hotel offered. We got back to the hotel at lunch time and tried out our newly bought bed!There weren't a lot of people around so Leo and I had the pool mostly to ourselves. We took turns sleeping on the bed in the pool! A must do when on vacation.

Wednesday

We got up early and headed out to Capri. The boat ride wasn't long, 30-45minutes and we were there! The amazing thing about Capri was how expensive everything was. It was rows and rows of signature shops and you could even see one store with a gone tanning sign to show they're closed! We stayed only the day. In the afternoon, there was a rush in queue and we were like sardines! While waiting for the boat back, we had some nice cold granitas to refresh ourselves. We had dinner in Sorrento that night. We had dinner at the place we had gone to two years ago!

Thursday

We had made arrangements with the hotel to go their "private beach" which turned out to be an abandoned port area. It was really rocky. But the water was clean and fresh and definitely refreshing. We spent the day lounging at the beach. That was cool.

Friday

We decided to totally chill out. We spent the day at the hotel's pool and slept in the afternoon. We had dinner at the hotel, we hardly moved. We did also however, got our bags ready. We were leaving the next day.

Saturday
We checked out and headed straight to Rome. We didn't stop anywhere. We had lunch at our favorite place in Leo's area and relaxed. I went home that night. Leo left the next morning to go back to Brussels.

It was short but a whole lot of fun. I still look back fondly at the pictures and wish I was reliving them again.