Travel Blogs from Levanto, Italy
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Finale ligure italy may have been another ...
... are exceptionally helpful, it has a great roof terrace, and L8,000 ($4) buys you the best Gnocchi al Pesto in Italy! We took a boat from Manarola to Monterosso, for exceptional views of the coastline from the water. Then spent the afternoon walking ...
Levanto\ Cinque Terre
Late entry... but that's ok!! This was my 2nd weekend, Olivia Benji and I went to Cinque Terre and Levanto. Cinque Terre is this beautiful national park along the northwest coast of Italy. We got there and learned that there's no camping in Cinque ...
Levanto, Cinque Terre & The Best Pizza Ever!
... be easy to find, but with no other information other than their names I couldn't find it (sorry). Compared to the walk from Levanto to Monterosso the first parts of the walk were pretty easy. We went for a swam before the stairs to Corniglia where Pete ...
Five Towns
Cinque Terra was awe-inspiring The mission man inside me struck again, making it Sei Terra (six towns) by the time I had finished the nine-hour hike along the Mediterranean coast. I walked from Riomaggiore to Levento stopping only briefly to eat ...
The journey begins
After 4 days packing bags and trying to fit every possible thing in the cases.. we leave for the airport.. since we're not so close we decide to leave earlier than expected (1 day). Last goodbye for the cat (poor him left all alone for such a long time ...
ITALY- Chinque Terre.
... to Milan. One night there to have a look around town. The Duomo church is worth a tour! Next day a train from Milan to Levanto, the start of my walk. Walked into town and picked up a map from the Local Tourist Office (detailed enough) and some food from ...
Cinque Terre
... south for a while – we could put our toques away! We wandered into town, about a 20 minute walk from the campsite. Levanto was quite pretty and there was a great boulevard along the waterfront which we wandered along until the end. We made a gelato ...
Buggered Thermarest
My Thermarest gave up in Switzerland and decided to give birth to a massive Thermaest baby lump. So after we got our new car, "Renee" the Renault our first task was to take it back to Decathlon and try to negotiate a replacement. With a little sign ...
Cinque Terra
... ; apparently I was a sight for sore eyes and looked like an absolute hobo. We walked a total of 21km today! Our trek started at Levanto , 7.5km or 2 ½ hours to the first of the villages. It was hot and hard! By the time we go to Montorosso all we wanted ...
Hiking Cinque Terre
... , a little town just east of the five villages forming Cinque Terre and found a cool campground. That evening we had dinner in Levanto, which is actually not really part of the whole tourist buzz around Cinque Terre, but it's a really cute place. We ...
Cinque Terre
... came across as a tired tourist attraction. We had our standard pizza/Moretti lunch and beat a hasty retreat. We ended up in Levanto, a small town just north of the Cinque Terre, which turned out to be another lucky find. Cinque Terre had been in ...
Cinque Terre - five amazing villages
... The legs are over worked so we caught the train again to Vernazza for a look around and then hopped back on to get back to Levanto. After siesta all the women and kids gather in the piazza, the kids to play and the women to socialize, until dinner time ...
I have been ROBBED! Then LOST! Then I was found!
... true, and in true Neil travel fashion by the grace of God everything has worked out. I have been at the beach all day in Levanto Italy. I rented a cabin, a chair and an umbrella, ella ella ella eh eh eh.... So I had been in the water 3 times, ...
Now we are talking beautiful - Levanto
Tuesday Levanto This place makes up for Pisa , it is glorious. It is on the edge of the Cinque Terre a group of 5 villages, each built in a ravine between the mountains and the sea and joined only by walking trials and rail, no cars, and described ...
I'm beginning to dislike the word "up"
... but your mind can only absorb so much for so long before really cool ruins start to look like large rocks). We got into Levanto quite late (our first train was late, missed the connection, had to get a later train....), our host had told us to ...
From where we explored the Cinque Terre
... were still passing us at over 140km/hr. Our accomodation was a large downstairs apartment at Villa Margherita in the seaside town of Levanto. The rain meant that the steeper coastal parts of the track at the Levanto end were closed to walkers so we ...
Itay - Day 2 - Manarola & Levanto
Italy - Day 2 - Manarola and Levanto 26th September 2008 So, where are we....? We are in the Cinque Terre Region of the Italian Rivera! A stunning area of National Park consisting of 5 villages joined by at walking trail, but can be ...
Levanto
... as nothing else really to see in Pisa. Next day we begin the Cinque Terre, which is the 5 village walk. We walk from Levanto to Monterosso through some pretty awesome costal scenery. We stop for lasagna and a gelato, and then walk on to Vernazza. ...
Last day in Italy
Well today we had the morning exploring the delightful town of Levanto including the compusory steps.. We think we picked the best town to stay in for visiting Cinque Terre. Beautiful beachfront, nice clean streets with cafes and shops with history being ...
Cinque Terre
... the 150 m to Genoa station havin left our main luggage at the hotel & carrying only small backpacks for our 2 nights at Levanto. Well into the train trip down we found we had not validated our tickets in wall machines back at the station. ...
Still in Levanto
... ) from New zealand in Florence and they dropped their baby down the steps....I digress. We left them in Florence and headed to Levanto to camp. A day later they show up at the same campsite in Levanto and end up camping right beside us again! Too bad ...
Heat, wallets and John Wayne
... 8217;t I read the label? My problems however did not distract me from the beautiful scenery. The walk from Levanto to Monterossa (start of the Cinque Terra) was fantastic. We were following these American chicks who were quite athletic ...
The last few days.
Well here we are in the Cinque Terra, Did the walk from the last of the 5 wonderful towns to the second town. All up about 3 hours of hard trekking. Stopping at each town for Birra or Espresso. Lunch and a few snacks kept up the energy ...
Camminare e nuotare nel Mediterraneo
... back to the middle town I had accidentally skipped Corniglia, which was really worth skipping and then re-boarded the train for Levanto. Actually just before that I stopped off for bruchetta, with tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil and ham. It was absolutely ...
Exploring Cinque Terra
... of each. Yummy treats for the next few days after we leave this region. We are staying in a campground in Levanto, which is very delightful. A church nearby rings its bells every 15 minutes - lovely sounds. This weekend, there have been several ...
Interesting drive to Levanto, Cinque Terre
... us again. Lovely B&B run by two sorellas (sisters) who were very helpful with all the sights in the area. Had a walk around Levanto which is very pretty and then out for a seafood dinner at a lovely ristorante. Today we had a full day exploring the ...
The experience of leaving Lucca
... , Grandma and I toughed it out throughout the day as we took the beloved rental car back to La Spezia, and caught a train to Levanto - our home for the next three nights. I quickly fell in love with levanto as we walked the quiet streets in the afternoon, ...
Cinque Terre......Josh
Day 8:Florence We went to the Accademia to see David the statue by Michaelangelo. David was so big and he had so much detail. The statue was the moment before he threw the rock to kill Goliath the giant. Before we did all that we climbed the big tower ...
Levanto - Base for Cinque Terre
We Drive out of Rome and into Levanto (about 5-6 hrs later). We find the black sand beach and I immediately parked the car and went for a dip in the ocean. It was certainly an experience as the beach wasn't much of a surf beach but rather a like like ...
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