To continue my catch-up from last time, we have to go back to Cinque Terre. This place was already somewhat special to me considering its beauty and the fact that my family traveled there a short eight years ago when I was a snaggletoothed soon-to-be-seventh grader.
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| Sisters during the rough years... |
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| Poole sibs throwback. (Shamrock shirt anyone?)
Needless to say, I was pretty excited to head back to that glorious land this past Saturday. We went through a tour company, which we thought would be a convenient and pretty cost-effective way to see the 5 Lands. It turned out that so did about 500 other college students, but that was okay because it was perfect weather and just a glorious day.
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| Vernazza |
We began with about an hour in Manarola, the second town from the train station of La Spezia.
From there we took the very crowded train to Vernazza where we ate delicious pesto pizza and cinnamon gelato, of course. Being back in that place was surreal.
We ended the day with a couple of hours at the beach, so that was nice if you're into that kind of thing. It's not every day that you lay on a rocky beach with the Mediterranean coast right next to you. The beach was quite crowded, but I was happy to share.
From Vernazza we hiked to Monterosso al Mare. While fairly arduous, we were prepared with our tennis shoes unlike the people in front of us who walked the 6 miles in rubber flip-flops and bikinis. They seemed to regret their decision, but we certainly did not. We were rewarded with views like these:
We ended the day with a couple of hours at the beach, so that was nice if you're into that kind of thing. It's not every day that you lay on a rocky beach with the Mediterranean coast right next to you. The beach was quite crowded, but I was happy to share.
Not too shabby for a Saturday, I'd say.
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