Affittacamere Patrizia

Cinque Terre photos here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=163678&id=613699523&l=bae7645b89 Stayed at Affittacamere Patrizia Hostel in Rio Maggiore in Cinque Terre and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. When we got to the Hostel it was just an ...

... just drive there and park somewhere, then look for the office address by walking from the car and a key and directions to our Affittacamere would be left for us in an envelope near the door. Well, we found the envelope and key with directions...Wow, ...

We arrived in Riomaggiore around 6 AM. The sun was coming up and the streets were completely quiet - not a single tourist in site. Just locals opening their grocery stores and bakers running around the streets with dough that needed baking. This is an ...

28TH MAY 2010 - This morning we leave Florence.  At 7am we walk to our pick up hotel called Plus Florence which was just up the road so it was so easy to get to. We wait around the hotel for the Busabout bus which leaves 8am.  We pile on and ...

Monday we did the walking tours from village to village, and we heard the local markets are a must on Tuesday in the Five Lands!  We will then head out whenever and head towards Venice. We travelled through the five villages by ...

With a pitstop in Florence to break up the trip, we made it to the Cinque Terre to warmth, sunshine and blue skies. The Cinque Terre is a piece of the Italian coastline that comprises of five villages joined by a coastal walking track, all of which are ...

At 12:30 we were at the Riomaggiore Beach laying out on an extremely hot day. It was probably about 100 F. We stayed for three hours and could not stay longer. We then took a train to La Spezia from which we were going to take a train to Pisa. But the ...

The day started out with Natalia, Stacey, and I taking a train to Monterosso (the northernmost village of the five). We were planning to hike from there to Vernazza. It's supposed to be the best hike between the villages. We thought it would be ...

We had a very good night's sleep in Grandma's kitchen. We got down to the village for some breakfast. We went to the Coop to get some prosciutto, mozzarella, focaccia, tomatoes, and fruit. We made sandwiches and ate the fruit. Cheap and delicious. And we ...

Train ride from Milan to Cinque Terre was easy. We took a train to Levanto and transferred there to a train that rides through all the Cinque Terre towns. Ours was Riomaggiore (the southernmost one of the 5). During our train ride, we had a very unique ...