Riomaggiore Hostel

... almost eleven total months of travelling! Since we hadn't actually booked any accomodation, although we knew there were spaces at the hostel in Riomaggiore (the first town), we decided just to keep going and get off at the last town, the next stop on the ...

... spent the past two nights in the Cinque Terre, a series of five tiny towns along the coast. We stayed in Riomaggiore, the third largest town, in a hostel appartment above a bar. Loud but fun :) The first day that we got there, in the afternoon, we ...

... Sea... No big deal.  Also, for reference, the towns, in order, are Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore. We decided to stay in Riomaggiore Tuesday night because the next morning we would take a train to Monterosso, hike through ...

... hour as we were actually pretty drenched. We returned to base and climbed up the hundreds of steps to savour a stunning sunset from Riomaggiore across the Mediterranean. Together with a Peroni, Kris, Kat, Jac and I truly believed we would struggle to see ...

... what i've heard soo much hype about, and it did live to it's expectations. i did the Via Dell'amore, which is Riomaggiore to Manarola...then, it progresselly got hotter and harder as we continued up the 380 steps that everyone talks about. Since we took ...

... of the incrediably blue sea next to the train lines and it was one of the best sites we'd seen so far. Once we reached Riomaggiore, we found a little village sticking out over the ocean on the side of a hill. As we walked up the steep main street, it was ...

... pretty quiet with few tourists. We explored the second town for a bit that night and then headed back to our apartment in Riomaggiore. Being so excited with all the room Wendy and I decided to do some laundry while drinking some local wine (2.50? (3.50$) ...

... day?), I realized it was not due to the wine.  Staying longer was just not an option... Next destination: Rome.  The hostel was quite a challenge to my new I'm-taking-it-easy-nothing-bothers-me-anymore philosophy.  When Caleb asked me why I ...

... National Park. The “blue” one is the trail linking the 5 villages making up the “Cinque Terre” (being Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso) and you have to pay €5 per day to hike it. The red trails are ...

... was something like 16 hours of train rides... not fun.  But it was definitely worth the trip out to Cinque Terre!  Riomaggiore was probably the second biggest, and southernmost village. So we go to the village and it was time to find the hostel. ...

... up a hideous dull rust orange color!). The place I was staying,  Cinque Terre Holidays, was a hostel in the last southernmost village, Riomaggiore. Like the other villages, Riomaggiore is absolutely cute with a single, narrow road winding itself ...

... our doorstep! It was like paradise. Yesterday, we spent the whole day hiking around the park, through all five villages: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso. The weather was perfect: not a cloud in the sky and the sun was beating ...

... ;s recovered!) We relaxed with a bit of Uno and read our books in the sun, wandered through the tiny streets of Riomaggiore, did some people watching and cooked delicious fresh Ravioli for dinner. We finished the day off with strawberries and gelato for ...

... far my favorite place that we have been thus far. We got in around 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon.  We showed up at the hostel office in Riomaggiore and asked if he had any rooms available near the water at the marina. He handed us a set of keys, told us ...

... time.  I used up a lot of my first aide kit patching myself up, but I restocked a bit at the farmacia here in Riomaggiore.  Thankfully the people there understand "band aide" and "antibiotic" and such.. Today I took a short train ride up to the ...

... by the marina.  We stayed in a nice room with a kitchen overlooking the water.  We spent the morning exploring Riomaggiore and shopping for our meals.  We got fresh tortellini and raviolis with pesto and foccacia.  We made lunch at ...

... a very interesting conversation about love, marriage, Italy, America, etc. Great time.  After we got off at Riomaggiore, we followed the hostel's directions. We ended up at Via Colombo 94. Was this our hostel? Kinda...this was the hostel's office. ...

... . Once we arrived, a light rain started falling so we took advantage of that a caught a nap in our hostel. Feeling rested we decided to explore Riomaggiore a bit more, we walked down to the harbor which actually didn't have any boats in it just some ...

... section, which was packed. There are tons of other hikes as well. The second day I was there I headed east, which is behind Riomaggiore. It was a hell of an uphill hike for the first hour or so but then I got onto some flat ground that was shaded ...