Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Hiking the trail in Cinque Terra


This is the path we followed

We start at the beach in Monterossa

Well, we thought we could hike to all of the 5 villages of Cinque Terra, but we didn't quite have the time or energy to reach more than 3 of them.  Actually, the path beyond the last village we reached was washed out by winter storms, so we'll use that as our excuse for not making it further......

There really is no better description for what we saw and experienced today than through pictures....and we had plenty of them.  So many that it was hard to pick the ones we wanted to share with you, but maybe you'll also get to see what the villagers have been walking for hundreds of years.  This was a very special day on the coast of the Mediterranean.  Tomorrow we head to Milan.
Little farms with grape vines,
lemon trees, and vegetables

Seems like it only goes up!
Vernazzo - the halfway point


Meeting tour friends going the other way

The Italian flag flying proudly
Our final destination - Corniglia

Ahhhh.....gelato!

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