The hike to Portovenere

In the center of the photo, the two farthest bits of land you can see are two small islands. This hike took us from Riomaggiore to Portovenere, which is just off the photo, to the left of those two islands. This was probably our longest hike, but was very beatiful. Today is our last day of the REI tour, and we will be ferrying out to the larger of those islands, and then hiking its perimeter.

We've been busy

May 26th 2006
We arrived in Italy on Saturday, May 20, and met up with our tour group in Santa Margherita on Sunday. Since then, we've been too busy hiking and eating to blog. I'll add a few photos here, but we'll have many more to share when we return. ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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