Cinque Terre

October 4-6, 2013

Friday

-I rode the European railways all by myself and made it from Florence to Cinque Terre in about three hours. 

-Started walking through the train station and saw my dad immediately!

-We got a cab ride up through the tiny narrow streets to Porto Roca Hotel, where you are only supposed to have two guests...not three. (oops)

-Our view from the room was unbelievable but the room itself was a little tight!

-That night we walked down the hill, got a glass of wine at a little bar and went to Pozzo for dinner. All day we had been waiting for the rain and eventually it started to come.

-Friday night it DOWNPOURED and the wind was blowing...Dad got a little wet since he slept on the concrete floor with one blanket near the window. lol 

Satuday

-Hearing that throughout the night, I thought for sure our day on Saturday was going to be a wash out. Surprisingly we woke up and the sun was trying to make its way out! 

-We got breakfast at the hotel and started our way on the hike.

-None of us had any expectations of the hike other than that it couldn't be too bad. 

-Well we were soon sadly mistaken. The hike from Monterosso to Vernazza took an hour an half of some pretty steep hiking.

- From then on we took the train from Vernazza to Corniglia, Corniglia to Manarola and Manarola to Riomaggiore.

- We got back to Monterosso around four and went into the town a little to explore, we got drinks at a bar overlooking the water and cheese and Cinque Terre wine at a local grocery store to bring back to the room. 

-That night we went to a really cool restaurant that had some awesome pesto sauce.

Sunday

-Made our way back to Florence!!!!

-Hung out for a bit and then went out to a really nice dinner with Terese, Dan, Katie, and Kevin.