Best Western Grand Hotel Elba Intl Capoliveri

So everyone we spoke to said how beautiful Elba Island is and we were so excited about getting there. Hmmm.... The weather was still following us. You know the song "everywhere you go you always take the weather with you" or "why does it always rain on me"... they fitted perfectly. The first night we had torrential rain and thunderstorms and honey dew leaked a bit. The day cleared up ...

Non ero mai stato all'Isola d'Elba.
Di solito sceglievo altre mete del Mediterraneo (Grecia, Tunisia, Marocco, Spagna, Sicilia, Sardegna, ecc.) perchè pensavo fosse poco "calda" e poco "mediterranea".
Invece è stata una bellissima sorpresa.




Se devo dare un voto alle spieaggie che ho visto:
Biadola 10, Cavoli 10, Procchio 9, Lacona 7
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Avant de travailler sur le périple oenologique sur lequel nous ne pourrons faire l'impasse cette année, Voici un rappel de notre balade du 5 mai 2008 jusqu'à Massa Maritima en passant par Sticciano, Roccastrada, Sassofortino, Rocatederighi, Tatti et Bellavista

... that brought to mind. Then the Isola Pianosa came into view, with Elba also visible in the clouds further ahead. Elba looked unspoilt, with small cliff-top villages perched between the sea and the clouds. Over to the west we could see a high grey profile of Corsica. By about 16:00 we had reached our anchorage ...

... some from them and post them on here anyway. Then they took us to a town called Marino del Campo for a couple hours where there was a beach to play on. THEN we went back, had dinner, and passed out from a busy day. It was a very good weekend, and I can't wait till next weekend when we go to Cinque Terre!! I'll upload pictures on here soon, I just need to charge my battery in my camera. Ciao for now!

... several beautiful buildings, terraced with olives & vineyards, etc. Mercedes got talking to this gentleman in work clothes pushing a wheelbarrow full of rocks. He turned out to be the owner, Alberto (he has a legal practice in Florence) and he invited us in and showed us around the whole property - he gave us some of his tomatoes and figs to try, which were incredibly flavoursome (and he makes the special wine of Elba called Aleatico d'Elba, into which you dunk biscuits called ...

... hour away after the Villa. There were amazing views of the island on the drive over and the beach wasn't crowded at all. Fredericka, one of the student life people who is Italian, said that during the summer it's disgustingly crowded and our weekend was the perfect time to go since it's still hot but not full. We buried each other in the sand and played beach soccer and volleyball. And of course swam. I swam way far out again and had a race ...

... traffic, but mostly. We walked along the steps and explored its church. The church was interesting as it had three separate chapels to the Madonna, but not even a picture of Christ or a Cross within it. The only Christ in the church was a baby sitting on the Madonna's lap in one image. We returned back to the hotel in time to shower and change for dinner. Dinner was delicious, with pasta tossed with fresh anchovies, and then mussels in wine sauce.

Great Island! It belongs to the Tuscany region and is next to Livorno where you can take a ferry to arrive. We travelled around the island with our teacher and classmates and visited some geological interesting points. We will probably come back... but this remains a mystery...

... he has a great ass :) tomorrow we are going to sienna... so we have had some problems with the lady who owns the apartmetns, first she said that she was going to let us in when we arrived, she was no where to be found and the cleaning lady let us in, started speaking to us in italian...and than she called the lady who owns the apartments and she said she would be there on tuesday at 10 to discuss the payments....so tuesday this old lady comes to the door, talks to us in italian for ...