Hotel Monterosso

... between vineyards and the deep blue sea. As we approach the Cinque Terre, we'll park our bus and take a short train ride into seaside Monterosso al Mare, where we'll sleep (2 nights). Train: ¼ hr. Bus: 7 hrs. Walking: moderate. May 29th, 2011 - Free ...

Ciao to you all from Monterosso.Have been very busy since our last entry. According to Chris I lost one in Venice. He did. Timed out before he saved. Many new and varied experiences, left fair Verona and headed to Venezia, that dreaded autobarn again (by ...

... make a difference.   Our drive today was approx. 200 km and yet it still took us until almost 6 pm to get to our hotel here in the Cinque Terre.  We got lost more than once and had to do a bit of back tracking.  The roads were ...

... Cinque Terre.  What draws travelers to this area (besides the great food and breathtaking scenery) are the hiking trails between Monterosso and Riomaggiore.   We arrived in Monterosso in the early evening.  From the train station, it was a short ...

... since the path wasn't wide enough for more than one person to walk at a time. Vernazza seemed much busier than Monterosso. The city was beautiful, a little newer than monterosso. After returning back to monterosso we had some much needed showers and then ...

... !! THAT would have been fun with luggage.... Our lovely Locanda (you need 7 rooms to be called a hotel, and our place has 6) is in the middle of Monterosso, the 5th town. This town is beachy, lots of restaurants and shops, lots of picturesque buildings ...

Kilometers-wise the drive from Manarola to Monterosso isn’t much, but in the category of twists and turns on tiny roads with fast cars and bikes around corners it excels. To top it all off it rises towards the highest ridges of the Cinque mountain ...

Monterosso is one of five small towns along the Cinque Terre on the Italian Riviera. Monterosso is a relaxing beach town with a very small town vibe which we thoroughly enjoyed after the hustle and bustle of Rome and Florence. We arrived by train from ...

... at the hotel.  We were going to take a boat ride through the Cinque Terre area.  Cinque Terre means "5 lands".  Monterosso is one of the lands, and then there are 4 other villages.  The boat would have visited each one.  It was ...

... 6 stops ahead of us, and Jim and I felt a little lost without him!  However, we found Monterosso, disembarked, and made our way to the Hotel Spiaggia, which was only a block away from the train station. Ella, the wonderful desk clerk, must have ...

... -much fun. But Stacy is a trooper and off we went. The first leg of the trail which began just before Hotel Roca and bridged Monterosso with Vernazza, is considered the most strenuous trail with the most narrow trails and drop offs.  We started at ...

... one of the few hotels with a parking spot so we have tucked Betsy away in  alocked parking area. We went for a quick reccy of Monterosso and promptly got caught in the rain with no wet weather gear - we ran all the way home soaked!  Now having a ...

... -free and there is not a museum in sight. Just the sun, sea, sand, wine, and natural Italian coastline. We stayed in Monterosso, which is the best of the five villages, as it has the biggest and most beautiful beaches and the best nightlife. Cinque Terre ...

... because it's so picturesque. And because it's so picturesque, it's chock-a-block with tourists. And it's got the same shops that Monterosso does. This makes it sound like I'm down on these towns, but I'm not. They're most definitely cute and well ...

... getting quite stuffed as it is. (And having said that, I also stopped in another shop to buy a magnet.) We got to our hotel in Monterosso around 5:45. It's the Hotel Punta Mesco, and my room is on the ground floor (no stairs!) with a small patio. What ...

... regional railway, and a passenger ferry.  No cars.  We stayed as 'the honeymooners' in the town of Monterosso at the beautiful Porto Roca hotel which is high up a rock face looking over the ocean.  I should mention that everything is high ...

... else in Italy. I am staying here until Aug 4th (3 more full days). We have been staying at a superb place called Hotel Souvenir in Monterosso...a great guy named Dave from Australia is staying in our room, and now it is just Dave and I. Cinque Terre ...