Capri is one of those places that looks impossibly good in photographs and then, somehow, even better in person. But the best shots here are not accidents, they come from knowing where to stand and, just as importantly, when. This…
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Visiting the Blue Grotto in Capri: A Complete Guide
The Blue Grotto is the single image that sells Capri: a sea cave where light entering below the waterline turns the whole cavern a glowing, unreal blue. It is beautiful, it is brief, and it is a genuine logistical exercise…
The Best Things to Do in Capri
Capri is small enough to walk across and rich enough to fill a week, which is the lovely problem of the island. It packs sea caves, clifftop gardens, a chairlift to the sky and one of the most famous little…
How to Get to Capri: Ferries, Times and Prices
Capri is an island, and that is the first thing to plan around. There is no bridge and no airport, so every visit begins with a boat, and getting the boat right is the difference between a smooth arrival and…
Where to Stay in Capri: Best Areas and Hotels
Where you sleep on Capri shapes the whole trip, because the island is really two worlds: the glossy, buzzing side around Capri town, and the quiet, whitewashed calm of Anacapri up the mountain. Staying the night, rather than day-tripping, is…
The Perfect Capri Itinerary: One or Two Days
Capri packs an enormous amount into a tiny island, and it is easy to spend a whole visit shuffling in queues if you do not have a plan. This is the itinerary I would give a friend: a well-paced day…
The Best Beaches and Swimming Spots in Capri
Let me set expectations first, because it saves disappointment: Capri is not a sandy-beach island. It is a mountain rising sheer out of the sea, so what you get instead is pebbly coves, rocky ledges, beach clubs on wooden platforms,…
Anacapri and Monte Solaro: The Quieter Side of Capri
Most day-trippers never make it past Capri town, and that is exactly why you should. Up the mountain, reached by a hair-raising bus ride or an open-top taxi, Anacapri is the island’s second village: quieter, whiter, lower-key, and home to…
Where to Stay in Cinque Terre
Where you sleep in Cinque Terre shapes the whole trip, because the magic here happens at the edges of the day. Stay in one of the villages and you get the golden hour after the day-trippers leave and the early…
Hiking Cinque Terre: The Blue Trail and Via dell’Amore
Walking is half the reason to come to Cinque Terre. The five villages are linked by a network of paths cut into the terraces above the sea, and covering even one section on foot turns a train-hop tour into a…
How to Get to Cinque Terre and Get Around
Cinque Terre is one of those places whose whole character comes from being slightly difficult to reach. No motorway runs through the five villages, the roads that do exist are slow and high above the coast, and the easiest way…
The Perfect Cinque Terre Itinerary: 2 to 3 Days
The whole of Cinque Terre is barely eleven kilometres of coast, and the train between the two furthest villages takes under twenty minutes, which fools people into thinking they can “do” it in a day. You can, technically, and feel…
