Locanda del Sole Riomaggiore

... hesitation. You must pick a gap in between the trucks and/or traffic in the slow lane to weave in with. This is not that difficult, as I have said the truck traffic in this lane is moving around 50mph.

Stepping Out: As we all have heard you must be cautious when you step out into the fast lane. Most of the time this is not a problem. But here’s the catch. The cruise speed of the fast lane is between 95 – 105 mph. At this ...

... ll see how it goes.

Tomorrow I am off to Milan, and kindly enough staying with a friend of the women who owned the horse place I worked at. Can't beat free, and many of the people that I met there vouched for him so, I'm off to another city. I'm hoping to make Milan, Verona and Venice by the weekend so I can go to Parma and see my cousin on the weekend. Wish me Luck!

Missing you all!
Benita

... off tourists to 4 out of the 5 towns (the town of Corniglia is too high off the dock with cliffs too steep and thus appears untouched by time).

We enjoyed the salty Mediterranean and photo opportunities from boat, and got off at the southernmost village, Riomaggiore. There, we enjoyed a leisurely trek along the coast on the famous Via dell' Amore (Lovers' Lane ...

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…

... staying in Torano a small town, perched in the mountains where marble is mined.

This will now be our home for the next couple of months.

As we aren't technically travelling at the moment we are temporarily suspending our blog, but will start up another blog about our lives in Tuscany.

Happy reading for now, and we hope you enjoy the winter or summer where ever you are.

... We’re not sure how they didn’t get stung, considering everyone else we met did! By the time we were done relaxing, we had about an hour and a half until we had to catch our 6:30 p.m. train home, which we were told might not be enough time to hike to the fifth town. Instead, we opted for a boat (we would’ve rather taken a zip-line, but I guess Italians haven’t invested in those yet — I’m definitely ...

after our interesting 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 clear, the village was so small and just beautiful.
We ended up renting a ...

... swam about. I liked it. We got to enjoy this all without anyone around, with the exception of old Italian fishermen who prepared for their days.

Of course, Richard and Jyles jumped off the highest cliffs they could find.

We checked in at 1030. The hostel was different, it was random rooms and apartments scattered around the town. Our room was AT LEAST 1000 steps above the marina. It was a hot and unpleasant walk with my ...

... everywhere.
That night we ventured into town and tried to get into a restaurant but they were all full. Take away pizza was had. We walked back up the hill, this time we didn't have our packs but it was a hard walk, a lot of it up stairs that were so steep my short legs hardly reached to the next
one.
Sunday 5 July

Slept in this morning and then sat outside enjoying the cinque terre view. The old Italian guy here was picking fresh ...

... Florence... But I did enjoy my two nights and day and a half. : ) Also, they are supposed to have really good pesto, but I've only had pesto twice before and didn't like it. Their pesto however, has redeemed it for me, and quite possibly ruined any other pesto from here on out! hahaha