04/05/26 Trip to Italy, Day 13, Sunday, Naples to Procida Island

Procida island, according to our hotel host, is the poor man's island, where the locals go. He says Capri is the rich man/tourist island and the locals don't go there much.

We went by ferry - walked around and enjoyed lunch outside —pulled pork and bacon burger—-pulled bomb was the name of the entree.

Funny weird thing...there were tables outside in the town. We thought you could just sit there. So we did. And then we were asked to leave because they were associated with a restaurant, that was CLOSED for the day?! What the heck! We went back to where we ordered our food and asked if we could eat inside, they said NO because we told them we were eating outside already. (There is a cover charge of $2-$4 euros per person at all sit down restaurants). Lesson learned. Oy.

So we ended up eating on some park benches.

After lunch, Andy and I headed back to Naples earlier than the others...because Andy was tired. When we got back to Naples we must have taken a wrong turn...because we ended up walking A LOT before eventually finding the elevator to get us back home...only a tour bus had just arrived and there were so many people waiting in line. So we went and sat by the water and waited the better part of an hour. Then headed back. The line was gone and we thought we were golden. We went inside and paid and then found a rather long line on the inside of the building! We did eventually get back to our place, but it was probably 2 hours and several miles longer than what we had planned on.

Andy in Procida

Map of Procida

Procida

Shelly in Procida

Me imitating all the people we saw
taking their instagram photos

Ruth, Shelly and Andy
in Procida

Procida

Chris and Ruth in Procida

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