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Riomaggiore Slideshow
Riomaggiore
Travel Blogs from Riomaggiore, Italy
Hiking the Cinque Terre
... made a big to-do about Vernazza, but we found it to be overcrowded and noisy. We were used to the laid back feel of Riomaggiore so Vernazza just seemed loud (we ran into the teenagers again) and overly touristy. Jill and Jen wanted to take the train ...
Five towns in one day
... one of the restaurants in the main street, nothing fancy just plan fish and chips and watched the sun set from the bay afterwards. Riomaggiore delivered for us and we could have spent a lot more time just doing nothing there. It's a nice hideaway and we ...
Venice and Cinque Terre
I would also like to add crowded and slightly creepy to my description of Venice. Friday night after getting off the computer, I had supper at the hostel and met 3 other girls who were also traveling by themselves. This is the most single female ...
Cinque Terra
... 28 April We woke up to a beautiful day and headed for the Cinque Terra on a little green bus. Riomaggiore, the southern most village, was a hive of activity with walkers and tourists milling in the pedestrian only streets skipping from ...
Cinque Terre
... , and the detour was said to be long and monotonous. We found our hostel, which turned out to be just a room hidden away in the Riomaggiore. No complaints though, as we had it to ourselves, and it had a great view of a boat launch in to the sea. Here, ...
Pesto, Wine and pizza :)
... night train ride we ended up in Italy, we had to get a train from Milan to La Spezia and from there another train to Riomaggiore which is the first village in Cinque terre. When we arrived we didnt actually believe this place was real. The ocean was so ...
Uno de Cinque Terre
... up Cinque Terre, and probably one of the most visited, anchoring as it does one end of the famed Via Dell'Amore. Riomaggiore itself has a quaint harbour at the bottom of the typical gully on whose sides the town is perched. The Via Dell'Amore ...
Hiked 5 and still alive!
Cinque Terre for those of you who don't know is a series of 5 little towns all perched on the sides of cliffs over looking the ocean. The big thing to do here is to hike from the first town to the last which should take about 5 hours if you want to stop ...
What The Hell Happened To All My Comments?
Easter comes around and you all forget about Iris? I can't really write at this moment but I promise I will. I am super busy trying to get to Florence for a couple of months job working at a horse stable in Tuscany for the summer. Ciao! ...
Life's A beach!
... skin was more sensitive to the sun but I made up for it helping her apply aloe vera all night haha. We went back to Riomaggiore (p.s. this name is super fun to say when you say it with an Italian accent and I kept doing this all day). We bought ...
Cinque Terre and Pisa
... Lands". Those are five villages next to each other located on the rocks and looking at the see. So those are: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, Monterosso al Mare. The Cinque Terre National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There is no ...
THIS is Italy
... Terre. The Cinque Terre, literally meaning "five lands," is a remote stretch of the Italian Riviera. Five villages (Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso al Mare) line the coast, each connected by a foot path a couple of ...
A hiking we will go
... by the marina. We stayed in a nice room with a kitchen overlooking the water. We spent the morning exploring Riomaggiore and shopping for our meals. We got fresh tortellini and raviolis with pesto and foccacia. We made lunch at ...
Dec 20, 2010
Lover Lane - Cinque Terre
... we were up early and jumped on the train and headed off to the Five Lands of the Cinque Terra. We got off the train in Riomaggiore and headed off to check out the Lovers Pathway - La Via dell'Amore. This is a lovely walk which takes you along the coast ...
Quite a place to be a bum
... we decided to find a park bench for the night as it was balmy (in contrast to the previous night in Switzerland) and Riomaggiore is a small village, so we thought it would be fairly safe. We headed onto the walkway that heads towards Manarola ...
Beauty Around Every Corner
We stayed in Biassa for one night before heading to the Cinque Terre; a group of 5 small coastal towns along the Mediterranean Sea. The bus took us up an extremely windy road that made me a tad nervous. We got pizza in the local Pizzeria and that was my ...
You can be many things in Cinque Terre...
...but dry isn't one of them. Ah, the Cinque Terre. Italy's rugged coastline national park. It's composed of five little towns that have hiking trails connecting them all. It reportedly takes 5.5 hours to hike them all. Most of the locations to stay in ...
Happy Birthday Kara!
... to Monterosso, then have lunch and a swim, and then hike back... then trian back to Manarola and then hike back to Riomaggiore. Vernazza was really pretty as well and the buildings were painted even more brightly than where we were staying. ...
When in Rome, Venice, Florence, etc...
... of the villages themselves. This time, I was determined to do it right and booked a cute b'n'b right on the harbour of Riomaggiore. Best decision ever. We loved sitting in the window and watching life go on around us - the nonnas hanging out their ...
Cinque Terre, day 2
Day two in Cinque Terre! We went hiking at 10 am after a big breakfast (the first "American" breakfast in weeks and weeks). We started at the northern most town and started southwards, doing the hardest hike first. It was hard. There ...
The Five towns....Cinque Terre
... what i've heard soo much hype about, and it did live to it's expectations. i did the Via Dell'amore, which is Riomaggiore to Manarola...then, it progresselly got hotter and harder as we continued up the 380 steps that everyone talks about. Since we took ...
Trollin' Italian Style
... the coolest people ever- from England and Australia and Florida of all places- Siena is a great old city with the best square in Italy-Il Campo- drank one of the best bottles of wine- a 2003 Amarone that blew me away-23£ but what the hell- it was ...
Our hike through Cinque Terre
... townsincluded in the Cinque Terre area, Manarola, then Coeniglia, then Vernazza, then Monterosso. Heading out of town from Riomaggiore, we pick up some breakfast sandwiches, basically salami sheese and egg paninis. The trail is pretty ...