As I mentioned in the prior post, we made a point to drive the entire island. However, we pretty much stayed in two cities to eat and stroll. We had dinner three times in Porto Azzurro.
Here are the kids and Wade on our first night in Porto Azzurro. It's a cute little city with an active marina. Lots and lots of people come off of their sailboats and have dinner in the city. We mostly heard Dutch and German being spoken around us. Like our other recent trips to Italy, we didn't meet many Americans on this trip. In fact, we only met one American woman who lives near Milan but is originally from Long Island. This area is mostly frequented by northern European vacationers.
Another evening in Porto Azzurro after dinner at Osteria la Botte Gaia (my second most favorite meal on the island), having gelato by the marina.
Capoliveri is the other town we visited. We had dinner at a fabulous place called Trattoria dei Quattro Rioni. I had the best meal of the entire vacation here. Delicious gnocchi with duck ragu and a steak with roasted potatoes. We happened to go to Capoliveri on the night of their annual jazz festival. Had we known this we probably would have stayed far away, but it ended up being a really good decision.
Here are the kids (you can barely see them between the two saxophone players) watching a roving street band that decided to stop and play right in front of us.
In the piazza there was a large concert with modern music. Again, something we probably would have avoided had we known it was there, but it ended up being a really great band that played Italian music. We all had a fabulous time.
And of course we had gelato in Capoliveri.
And here are the kids on our last night on Elba. We ate dinner at Delfino Verde in Porto Azzurro and enjoyed some delicious seafood. Like most vacation towns in Italy, this little town has a merry-go-round.
Capoliveri is the other town we visited. We had dinner at a fabulous place called Trattoria dei Quattro Rioni. I had the best meal of the entire vacation here. Delicious gnocchi with duck ragu and a steak with roasted potatoes. We happened to go to Capoliveri on the night of their annual jazz festival. Had we known this we probably would have stayed far away, but it ended up being a really good decision.Here are the kids (you can barely see them between the two saxophone players) watching a roving street band that decided to stop and play right in front of us.
In the piazza there was a large concert with modern music. Again, something we probably would have avoided had we known it was there, but it ended up being a really great band that played Italian music. We all had a fabulous time.
And of course we had gelato in Capoliveri.
And here are the kids on our last night on Elba. We ate dinner at Delfino Verde in Porto Azzurro and enjoyed some delicious seafood. Like most vacation towns in Italy, this little town has a merry-go-round.
Of course we had to have gelato on our last night on the island.
Tomorrow we head to Florence and then it's back home. We're not sure how much we'll get to do in Florence, but if it proves to be anything interesting, I'll write a quick post about it.
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