Hotel Zia Piera Chiavari
Corso Valparaiso 54 Chiavari, Italian Riviera, 16043, Italy
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Day 297 - Out of the Rain
We'd been warned that November is the rainy season in Italy but we wanted to avoid the crowds (and a map of the associated high prices). Unfortunately our interest in camping was thwarted by the campgrounds being closed. This may have been a good thing as it got very rainy for a few days.
SIGHTS & SOUNDS:
La Spezia is a port town with little (relatively) in the way of historic sites. We stopped by on our way to the coast towards Cinque Terre which ...
Bikini hiking in the Cinque Terre
... cups like a muffin pan and each cup had a ball of icecream in it….!!!! After a pit stop (where the queue was so long that I eventually ducked into the gents loos and thereby started a bit of a revolution when the ladies behind me followed suit), I started the hike. The trail is well marked and wasn’t too busy. Up and up and up… eventually reaching the ruins of San Antonio church on a lovely peak overlooking the bay back to Monterosso and along the coast all the ...
The 5 Village Hike
... Then we went to the final city, Monterosso which is apparently the most popular for tourist during tourist season. It was getting late so there wasn't much to do, and of course it was still raining but we walked along the beach and the boardwalk anyway. Next time I go back it better be sunny and 80 degrees so I can put on a bathing suit and jump in! You will be able to see in the pictures how gorgeous it is even in the rain, so I can hardly imagine what its like in nice weather!
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Hiking to the Cinque Terre
... From this vantage point we could see three of the villages fairly clearly: Montorosso where we will spend the next two nights, Vernazza the largest of the five villages and Corniglia the only village that isn’t at sea level.
We took a break at this overlook so let me introduce you to our group. First are the six ladies from Alaska, Mary Lou and Chuck from Houston, Jim and Wayne from Australia, our ...
Cinque Terre
August 4 Cinque Terre, italy Today we hiked the ct trail. It connects five similar but geographicallyunique towns. It was a six hour hike and we stopped to shop and swim as we went along. The "beaches" are pretty much any stone or boulder you can find. The water ...
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