Cinque Terre

An early start to take in the five villages of Cinque Terre which is just what the name means (five lands). We had a spectacular day. First, a train to La Spezia which we expected to be a quaint little town but alas it’s quite big and quite ugly. A shame. It was apparently once beautiful but got bombed to the max and rebuilt at speed with minimum budget. This is the gateway to the Cinque Terre. You can hike between them but we would have seen less and frankly, we weren’t up for it on top of all we’d been doing! Train it was. We tried to keep ahead of the crowds - starting at the second and returned to the first at the end of the day via ferry but by that time it was manic all over! They are fascinating places - for goat people! And not in the new sense of the word! They have restored the terraces up behind the village further up the hills, for grapes and olives mainly - as was originally started by their ancestors over a thousand years ago.
Check out the water spout at the end and spot the guy rod fishing somewhere near the beginning.Les mer