Blogs from Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy, Europe - page 34

After chatting with her, it makes me want to meet even more people. That night I hung out with my roomate, Josh from New Zealand. He is also traveling by himself. But he is going for a year. We hung out with a group of German high school students that night. It was one of the guy´s birthday. He is also chinese and we have very similar haircut. They were taking pics of our hair...... I also met two Norway girls too. Next morning, I met Julio (an italian girl) and Darragh (pronoun it as Darra, Irish guy). We went to cinque terre together. We did a two hiking for the total of 1.5 hours. Then we went to swim in the beautiful ocean. Darra got burned very easily. The beach are not sandy here. Tons ... read more

Posting Time: 10:30am Location: Spain, Zaragoza, Raquel´s apartment We went our own way in Florence´s train station. I decided to stay in florence for another afternoon before heading to Lucca (off Pisa) for the night. I watched the first half of the soccer game in Pisa and second half in Lucca. Lucca is a interesting town. The city wall is still around the city. It is a great place to stay for a day. The next morning, I met up with Katie from US and travel to Cinque terre together. Cinque Terre (5 fishing Villages) seem to exist apart from the rest of italy. The villages clusters of random coloured houses surrounded by olive graves and vineyards. I forgot to mention these villages also provide breathtaking views of the ocean. The ocean around cinque terre is ... read more

Riomagiorre, in the Cinque Terra, moves into a slight lead over Santorini as my favorite place on this trip. The Cinque Terra, “the five lands”, is a national park that consists of five little villages in a remote area on the Italian Riviera. Although it is remote, this place is very popular with Americans, (Australians and Germans coming in a close second). Let’s just say you hear more English than Italian as you’re walking around the street. I may have loved this place so much because it was a mini miracle that I even got there. Yesterday afternoon in Florence (pretend that this blog is up to date!), I had no place to stay that night, so I went to the Internet café and began sending emails about apartments in Cinque Terre and also printed a ... read more

We left nice and early to start our hike. Stuffed ourselves with focaccia for breakfast and started on our way. We started from the village Montorosso. The first part of the hike was extremely hard. We did ok for the first half hour. By the hour, Angele was falling behind because her knee was starting to bug her. And by the time an hour and a half rolled around I thought I was going to die! I swear it wasn't this hard last year, but it could just be that im getting older and out of shape? Anyways, we dipped our feet in the ocean in Vernazza and enjoyed some fresh fruit and Gelati for lunch. Then it was time to continue the torture...I mean the hike...again. This portion was not as bad as the first. ... read more

Hello! We have a little catching up to do on our blog. So to start we will tell you about Florence. We arrived late at night due to shopping in Venice, catching the train, switching trains and getting into Florence. Upon arrival we found our room (up 5 flights of stairs). Rick Steve's had a great restaurant recommended a few blocks away. In the restaurant we had our own private niche. Everything was homemade from the pasta to the wine (which was grown at the owner's vineyard in Siena). The second day in Florence we all went to the Uffizi and Accademia (the Statue of David). The Uffizi was overwhelming a work of such beauty. The rooms had each artisit divided along with the time tables of art work. There were a lot of similarity between ... read more