So after the madness of the big cities Evans and I took a train out to Cinque Terra. We found ourselves a nice little guest house in Monterosso al' Mare. The owner happened to be retired and spent his time painting pictures of his home town off the meditteranean. He was very cool. It was called Manuel's Guesthouse and Rick Steves wrote about him on his updates page. We were lucky enough to get to stay in his house for one night. The cool thing also was he had beer and wine on tap on his patio that overlooked the city and the ocean and all you had to do was throw 1 Euro into his coffee cup to pour yourself a glass! The guy who we talked to for the reservation, and who was running things, was also very nice. His name was Lorenzo and because he only had a room for us for one night, he called around town and found us a room at a Bed & Breakfast for the same price of only 25 Euro each person per night. This was a bargain considering we were staying at a resort town!
Cinque Terra in general was overpopulated with tourists. German tourists especially! But the water was so crystal blue and the temperature was perfect. The little shops were really cute and the restaurants were tasty. i bought myself a pair of these cute mediteranean earrings from Monterosso as a souvenier. After our stroll around the village, we went down to the beach and did a little sun-tanning and took a dip in the sea. In true Evans fashion, Evans played with the sand and rocks the whole time and was like a little kid, covered head to toe in sand. People walking by were chuckling at him but i thought it was pretty funny. Evans also surrounded me with rocks while i was laying in the sand which also gave me a good laugh.
This day was pretty lazy since we wanted to relax from all the hectic touristy stuff.
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