Carla Levanto

We will be staying Riomaggiore (one of the five villages) and have booked our accomodation already at Casa Lorenza  We will be staying in apartment Nettuno.

What shouldn't we miss while we are here?

Partie tot ce matin pour se rendre a monterosso, premier village de 5 dans le parc national des cinque terre. Apres 1h40 de train, nous voila au deprt du sentier qui relie les 5 petits villages. A flanc de montagne, nous avons traverser plusieurs champs de vigne et plantations d'olivier de village en village ...

... best friends by the time we left... 7 Euro well spent!!

Fri 13 Nov
Drizzle greeted us this morning so we got on our wet weather gear and headed off for a walk along the coast to Portofino which was 5km away. The wind blew away any cobwebs we may have had but it blew the rain away so we were happy. The walk followed the coast where we looked into the deep blues ...

... ticket said La Spezia on it but didn't specify which one since there are apparently two stations in the tiny town; one on the outskirts and one in the center. The girls and I along with probably another dozen American tourists got off on the wrong one and had to search for help. The only person at the station other than us was the train engineer. He helped some but we had to wait in the rain for around half an hour for the next train to take us to either the central station or ...

Tuscan Riviera Portovenere
Had seen it on Getaway and looked very pretty.. Found a hotel with sea views and have spent 2 nights here resting , climbing around local castles… eating sleeping and watching the boats go in and out… not much English here but we are not hungry or thirsty so all going well….
Tomorrow we are off to the South of France.. 3 nights planned in Nice.. Really looking forward to it but have loved Italy…

... the temp varies between 19 and about 24 degress. Yesterday we sat in a bar right over the beach and watched the sunset while drinking Martini Rosso and eating olives and nuts - just like you imagine it would be. We are having the best time and are both well and managing to keep resonably trim - the extra wonderful food being balanced by heaps of exercise. The next news form France and I have just got used to basic Italian. Ciao Bella.

... this steam turns into fire after a while. You do not want to be with me when I am exhausted... Angus can tell you that. Anyways, on the train, I made me decision. I was going to let go. And it was OK, because if I really was meant to be with this person when I got back, he would still be there. Nothing bad could come out of me let going (something Angus has been trying to get me to understand for the previous 4 weeks). I also realised that me bringing this person into my life just before ...

... with another car. We had to back up until they could pass. I found that scary, backing up while going down a hill (backing down?) and not being able to see where you were going. We reached the village where we wanted to get off at and we set out.  When we first stared hiking down the path looked like it was a little disused and grown over.  By the time we were a third of the way down, it became clear that this was not the trail we had intended to follow, this was a disused bunny run. It ...

... turkey gobbling noise - we knew exactly what she meant - the power of body language and other signs in the absence of understanding different languages!! We made our way back to the train station only to realise that there was not another train for an hour, so we just sat and waited...... Once we arrived in Manarola we missed the bus to Volastra and the next and last bus for the day was a 3 hour wait until 10.30pm!! Whoops! We tried to ask if there was a taxi ...

... synes nå jeg. Levanto Levanto var en nydelig liten plass. Hele bølingen gikk fra stasjonen mot campingen, med oss i front. Det var lenge siden Petter, Alfonso og jeg hadde spist, så vi handlet inn grønnsaker, vin(1,5l) og brød. Når vi ankom campingen sto det et stort skilt "Completo foll", vi guttene tok et hint og gikk for å bade. Jentene ville prøve å komme seg inn, vi ga faen og sa takk for oss, så dem aldri igjen. Det begynte å bli mørkt ...