The Cinque Terre is an area of five villages perched on the coast. In days gone by you could walk from one village to another, but several of the walking paths have been stormed damaged and not repaired. There is only the ability to walk between Monterosso where we are staying and the nearest village. We caught the train to the furtherest village, and worked our way back towards Monterosso. We did a bit of exploring, ate gelato's, a bit of window shopping, etc in the villages, then would jump on the train and head down to the next village. Once we got to the fourth village, Trish and Grant walked the track back to our village, while the rest of us caught a water taxi. The sea had a decent swell which made it difficult to get photos without bouncing all over the place. There was only us in the water taxi and Lisa yahooed nearly all the way, thoroughly enjoying herself.
Once we reached our village we had a final look in the old town of Monterosso, and met up with Trish and Grant in one of the bars. We talked about future travel plans which is always a good topic when you are drinking on holiday with friends......
As good as the Cinque Terre villages are to visit my favourite areas in this region are Santa Margherita and Portafino.
We have now left Italy and have landed in London. I love this city. We are nicely situated in W1 in very spacious apartments which are almost next door to the Ritz which is on Piccadilly Rd. After a quick trip to Sainsbury to buy some supplies, we found an English pub nearby which supplied us with a quite acceptable meal. We had Sam Woodward and her partner Paddy, who arrived here to live last week, to entertain us about their three month trip through Asia. Reb has now ditched the 'old folks' now that she is back 'home' in London but we are catching up for a full day tomorrow.
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