Cinque Terre
*vernazia and monterosso beyond
sat. april 8, sun. april 9
*i promised myself to not leave italy without first being here.
cinque terre is a cluster of five small towns located in the northwestern coast of italy. the towns are separated anywhere from 2 to 5 kilometers apart. the views that you get when hiking from town to town are amazing and if you go when its really warm out, the beaches and transparent waters are the thing to do.
we arrived saturday afternoon in the town of Monterosso. the first thing we did was to look for a place to stay the night. at one point it seemed impossible to find anything reasonable but somehow at the end i found this lady who rented us a huge apartment for 25 bucks a peice. not bad at all, it had two bedrooms, a balcony, a nice kitchen - fully stocked with kitchen ware, and a really big bathroom. pretty cool. the later part of the day consisted of goofing off at the beach, drinking wine, and having a seafood dinner.
*manarola
on sunday colleen and i decided to hike our way to Rio Maggiore, the furthest town of the five. on our way we also visited Vernazia, Corneglia, and my favorite - Manarola. *side story - we also kept running into this guy in his 40's wearing a pink wife beater that looked like a tank top. he also had a little dog with him. the funny thing is that the first time we saw him he got arrested by the police, it seemed they were already looking for him. i guess somehow he scaped because we kept seeing him in the streets and we also kept seeing he police looking for him. pretty funny stuff.
*corneglia and rio maggiore beyond
*the water is so clear
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