Monday, August 9, 2010

Cinque Terre, Italy

- Three trains later and we lande in our fourth country in three days - Italy! We were working our way down the west coast via the Cinque Terre region which was extremely popular with Europeans during July and August. Due to this popularity, we had to stay at a campsite in Deiva Marina - a 20 minute train from the five towns.

- We arrived late on the first day but managed to plan verything for our day trip the following morning. As it turns out the day trip was only a half-day trip which gave us he opportunity to check out the Deiva Marina beach in the afternoon.

- We took a train from Deiva Marina down to Riomaggio (sic?), and then took the ferry north to each of the towns back to Deiva Marina. The towns all had a very quintessential 'Italian vibe' (if there is such a thing) and the myriad of paint colours on the buildings against the sea was quite a sight. Although each town was different in it's own right, each essentially operated in the same capacity - a main street with small pizzerias, jewlery stores etc and a lookout vantage point looking over the town back towards the sea.

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