Blogs from Vernazza, Liguria, Italy, Europe - page 2

It would have been easier to just stay on the beach and finish with a lazy meal on the strip. However I've never been a big fan of easy, and I was dying to do the big walk to Vernazza although all the reports we'd heard were a little scary. One family told of coming across a mother and her pre-teen daughter crying on the trail - the child because her feet were a mess from walking in thongs, and her mother from having to literally push her crippled daughter up the hundreds and hundreds of stairs because they were in the no-mans land of half-way between towns! Again, we decided an evening walk would be the go, and we did have a lovely day on the beach. Isabel settled for trying the Monterosso jumping rock ... read more

We were awoken in the middle of the night by a loud crash, followed by an unidentifiable eerie howling noise. Puzzled, I quickly stuck my head out the door and was nearly blown back into the room. We were in the midst of a roaring windstorm that had not only knocked over the furniture on our rooftop deck, but was rushing through the train tunnel below us creating the weirdest noise--a louder version of the sound you get from blowing into a bottle. Once we figured out what was happening, we returned to sleep, but the wind didn't let up and was pretty consistent throughout the next day. Nonetheless, we didn't let us stop us from our plan to hike part of the coastal trail that links the five towns, and is not only a national ... read more

It is difficult to describe this place. Beautiful, picturesque, amazing do not give this region justice when trying to describe. We enjoyed great wines, food and views of the 5 villages. We spent the day hiking to each one and enjoying great appetizers and a bottle of wine at each stop. We loved it!... read more

Dzis bedzie o urokach Ligurii, regionu malo zeksplorowanego przez polskich turystow, co pewnie stanowi czesciowo o jego atrakcyjnosci, ale za to dobrze spenetrowanego przez Amerykanow, co zdecydowanie ujmuje mu uroku. Prawdopodobnie najbardziej znanymi atrakcjami Ligurii sa Portofino, gdzie Rod Stewart z kolejnymi zonami pije jablkowe martini w porcie i 5Terre, kolonia pieciu miasteczek (Riomaggiore, Corniglia, Vernazza, Monterosso, Manarola) wpisanych na liste Unesco. Tej wiosny, ze wzgledu na korzystny kurs dolara, Amerykanie zalali Ligurie. Szczegolnie mlodzi studenci, ktorzy wlasnie skonczyli swoj roczny program w Rzymie lub Florencji i postanowili pozachwycac sie jeszcze troche Italia. Bylo ich widac na kazdym kroku, mowiacych co krok 'Oh my God, this is amazing'. Wieczorem, na glownym placu Vernazzy, gral na gitarze - majac ja polozona na kolanach i uzywajac jej bardziej jak ha... read more