La Baia di Rio Riomaggiore
Via Telemarco Signorini #177 Riomaggiore, Cinque Terre, Italian Riviera, Italy
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Day 297 - Out of the Rain
... coast.
For dinner we walked into La Spezia and while luckily the rain abated. We ate at a local place. Pasta & bread with olive oil of course :).
CULTURE:
The town seemed a little seedy. It was raining and in the slow season but a lot of places seemed to be shut down. It was here we noticed the condom & cigarette vending machines, ready for 24hr service, that it turns out are common in Italy.
There were 3 and 4 star hotels that ...
Long walk. I mean long.
... from the coastal walk that is the best part. We bought our ticket, took a few photos and then Sarah mentioned that the town is supposed to be nice. So we walked slowly through the throngs of old people and went to the town. It was covered with Americans and if it hadn't been so packed would have been nice. (Insert note: most of my photos you have seen from Cinque Terre to others do not contain a whole lot of people. Do not be fooled. They're everywhere. I just want the ...
Quite a place to be a bum
Our train from Switzerland from Italy went through a tunnel almost the whole way, so we didn't get the view of the Alps we were hoping for. It also seemed to get 10 degrees hotter as soon as we crossed the border.
Our train connections continued to work well and we got to Milan, Genoa and then on to Riomaggiore on the coast and part of the Cinque Terre late. That was where our luck changed.
There was only one single bed left at the ...
Cruising the italian Riviera
... boat back down to Portovenere. What a wonderful trip it was. Such a beautiful look from the sea. It was amazing to see the villages in whole and of course the one little village that we missed – Corniglia which was probably a good thing since it was perched high up on the hill and would have required a 360 step climb from the railway station to reach it. We also got to see the 3 landslides which closed that track between Manarola and ...
Saying goodbyes and hello!
... buses with the same idea. Not to mention the fact that it must have been club day for the Ferraris as they were out in force and the Esso servizio was obviously the meeting place. Boy what a sound they make.
Now I have to tell you about the servizios of this nature. They have found a wonderful idea to save space beside the autostradas.. They build the shop and the restuarant above the road. You know like the big BPs on the Bruce Highway, one either side of ...


