Riviera del Conero

We went to the Adriatic coast with Aunt Alba and Dan’s cousins, but not to sit on the beach…We hired two boats from the port of Numana and off we went. 

Out through the marina…

  

 and onto the open sea.

 

 

 We saw some spectacular views of the Conero Riviera:

The photo below is of the Two Sisters beach (Le Due Sorelle) named after the two huge rocks which rise out of the sea and which are said to resemble two nuns praying.  Not from this angle:

Maybe from this one?

 

I’d looked into boat trips from Numana and Sirolo before and found Traghettatori del Conero who run excursions to Le Due Sorelle for just 20 euros. 

However, we were a party of 8 and this soon adds up (even with discounts for little ones).   We paid only 70 euros per boat for the whole afternoon.  (The boats are large enough to hold 6 people, but new leglislation states that no more than 4 can go aboard no matter what size or age.  Yes, Health & Safety regulations are catching on here too.)

 

There were two very slight disappointments:

• The first was that our boat didn’t go as fast as Dan’s cousin’s.  That peeved our ‘captain’, but I was quite happy.  It went fast enough, thank-you-very-much-indeed.

Being overtaken by Dan’s cousin:

 

• The second was that I had understood that you could take the boat to the little coves which are unreachable by car and difficult to reach on foot.  And so you can, but the ‘captain’ has to turn off the engine 100 metres from the shore, row the boat to the beach, allow the ‘passengers’ to disembark and then row the boat back out and stay with it.  Well that’s not much fun for the captain.   Particulary one who is already peeved.

So, we all stayed on board and bobbed about on the sea for the afternoon.  It was great fun.

Being overtaken again:

We hired the boats from: Societa’ Cooperativa Numanese who are based in the Port of Numana.  Tel: 071 9930847

The afternoon times are from 14.30-18.30, but you can also book a morning trip (08.30-13.00 for 80 euros), or a whole day (08.30-18.30 for 125 euros). 

I would advise you book well in advance during high season.  There was nothing available for a week when we enquired.

The price includes car parking, but not fuel.  We paid 13 euros on top.  Speedy cousin paid a bit more!

Distance from Casalba: Approx. 40 kms.

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