Vernazza street.....shopping anyone?

Not a car in sight...they wouldn't fit on the tiny, twisting streets with lots of steep steps winding up between the houses and at times becoming interior passages. Vernazza was our favourite village but to the locals it isn't so quaint when hordes of tourists arrive for the long weekend. The locals (less than 1000 of them) are pleased to see them all depart again.

Italy Part One

July 2nd 2006
Ciao family and friends It's now the beginning of July and I'm still in Russia enjoying the white nights of midsummer in temperatures around 30deg. Getting up to date with these blogs is a slow process but it's still happening so I'm backtracking here..... ......at the end of April I farewelled Turkey and flew from Istanbul to Rome to begin my week in Italy. I could only fit two destinations ... read more

Europe » Italy » Liguria » Cinque Terre

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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