Cinque Terre Holidays

Welcome to our first attempt at a blog! The plan is to start in the UK and Ireland for the holidays with family, fly out east and work our way back to London for April. We'll do our best to keep this up to date if any of you are following. Please leave ...

... .  I didn't expect Cinque Terre to be this tourist-y. We found our hostel pretty quickly.  It was called Cinque Terre Holidays in Riomaggiore.  The owner was kind of awkward and stuttered a lot, but the hostel seemed to turn out well. ...

... are sweating from every pore in your body. But the pride and joy when you finish is amazing. We stayed in Riomaggiore in Cinque Terre Holidays, which is fine and can be found on Hostelworld. If you want to stay in town, choose a larger dorm room. ...

... des cinque terre : Riomaggiore. On a remonté la rue principale jusqu'à l'agence qui nous louait un appart pour le soir, cinque terre holidays. On y est arrivé vers 16h45 ; un panneau sur la porte indiquait « si vous n'arrivez pas avant 17h, votre ...

... ; the first town of five in the beautifully famous Cinque Terre. We have waited for this moment all our lives. Not necessarily for Cinque Terre (though once we discovered it several months ago it has been high on my radar) but for Italy. ITALIA. I never ...

... (cinque Terre is the home of pesto). The next day we were up early to start our scenic hike along all five villages of Cinque Terre, first stop, Monterosso. We got to Monterosso and walked around the village for an hour or so. Monterosso is, of the ...

... up to the same lookout point, armed with double the amount of wine and a guitar, listening and singing along to some tunes as the sun went down and darkness fell once more on the little town of Riomaggiore. The Cinque Terre - another really magical ...

... : Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. We stayed in a hostel in the town of Riomaggiore. Our time in Cinque Terre was spent taking the hike along the coast line and through the five villages (Approx 4 hours); swimming in the ...

... , etc, but everything else has just gone excellently. For the past couple of days, we stayed in the Parca Nazionale delle Cinque Terre, an amazing protected marine area of the Italian Riviera. To get there, we took a regional trian to Parma, which is, ...

... afternoon there and then came back to have supper again with my friends from North Carolina. We played some cards and called it an early night because I am leaving early for Nice, France today. I have really enjoyed Cinque Terre and am very glad I came. ...

... of being in Europe so I've been carrying around my alarm clock in my purse since then) I woke early Sunday to make the train to Cinque Terre. I was pretty proud of myself when I left that I didn't get lost at all in Venice. Everyone says you will get lost ...

Hiked the Cinque Terre trails in just over 3 hours! (It's supposed to take about 5...) - With a blood blister and a bunion! It is absolutely beautiful!! Wish I'd had more time there, but there was a train strike, so I wasn't able to stick around in case ...

I wanted to check out Cinque Terre as my sister had mentioned it though I'm not sure she's actually been here. Quite a few others had mentioned it in the last few weeks of travel as well and it is a really beautiful place. The weather really wasn't ...

This morning, 3 of my friends and I returned home from a weekend of hiking and sightseeing in Cinque Terre, Italy. It was a physical and emotional rollercoaster of a journey, beginning with spectacular views of the Mediterranean and Italian coastline, and ...

... to the Cinque Terre was to hike between the 5 towns.  However, today started with the disappointing news that the Cinque Terre hiking trail was closed between Monterosso and Manarola and the only part open was between Manarola and Riomaggiore.  ...

... - that's when the locals apparently leave for their holidays, many renting out their properties for tourists.  The history of the Cinque Terre is interesting and unique, and the National Park is doing a terrific job of maintaining it's heritage and ...

... the DVD Footloose in Italy available from Amazon.co.uk Filming Diary:  September 2004     Reaching the Cinque Terre was not difficult - we based ourselves in La Spezia, so took the airport shuttle from the airport at Genoa ...

... Navy next year; I was poking fun at his blogging style and suggested travel writing. What do you think? Our stay in Cinque Terre was wonderful. Just as we found Venice to be, Cinque Terre was quite deserted. Many shops and restaurants closed; we ...

30th July - 1st August 2007. Cinque Terre is one of Italy's main drawcards, and is famous for the five small villages that are perched on the cliffs of a small stretch of coastline in the west of Italy. Cliffside villages and campgrounds don't go ...

... , it's quite amusing. ***** Okay I've been very slack and not updated this lately, but here you go. Monterosso and the Cinque Terre in general were simply divine, by far my favourite place so far (I'm writing this post-Florence on the train to ...