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SubTitle: Blue Grotto, Blue Hour, What's the Difference
Posted by: rs on 11/22/1997@20:16hrs:
In Reply to: Re: The Staten Island Ferry posted by: Charlie on 11/22/1997@19:32hrs:
Okay, World Travelers, I've Got a Blue Grotto story for you. Wife and I are on last day in Sunny Italy and we take the hydrofoil over to Capri. By now I'm tired of playing ignorant tourist and I'm on to the game and the conversion rate for lira, which I can now do in my head. L750 = 1 bottle of water. W. wants to see the famous Blue G. which, to me the romanticist, is going to be a cave in which I am going to be scalped. There's a line leading to the ticket booth. W. wants to get on the line. Let me check the price first, because these paisanos have been in the Tourist Business since Tiberius had his Summer Home topside at Anacapri. I know in my bones that I'm not only going to get charged to float to the cave, but also to get inside the hole in the rock. So I go up to the booth, looking for the prices. I see, tacked to the wall, a little piece of paper which translates to $15 for the ride over, and another $15 to get into the cave. Exactly as I expected. I didn't grow up in SI for nothing. I didn't go to PS29 just to eat lunch. So I tell W. let's skip the cave and find a nice place to have lunch, a bottle of wine, and a leisurely trip back. This we do. RS one, Paisanos nothing. -rs-