Did you think Isola d’Elba would be a beautifully preserved landmark of history? Well, we haven’t seen all of it, but so far the main port town, Portoferraio, reminds me of Catalina and Miami beach combined. Not super quaint. Big pretty white rocks on the beach. Mediocre tourist food. The restaurant we landed in for dinner looked cute… it had a Napoleonic flag on the sign and was called Del Borgo. And the food wasn’t bad at all. Inside were some antiques… gramophone, radio, telephone… but they were also hosting a big Italian family reunion from the mainland port town of Piombino, and they kept the one waitress almost fully occupied. When all 18 of them each got their pizzas, we finally got our appetizers. The chef came out and apologized and they were nice enough about it. Really, for tourist food, it was not bad at all. Certainly better than ANY restaurant I’ve been to in Rome so far.
Local church lit with those LED string light…
Free sticker with ferry crossing!
We were one of the last ones on the ferry because when they let you drive into the port, they don’t tell you which dock to go to so we just followed the car ahead of us and the people behind us followed us as well, and we all drove out of the port together!
On the next try, we turned right into the first boat we saw, and just made it on. Then we forgot what door we parked next to and almost didn’t make it off!
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