OK, so the night before a huge storm came in. It reminded me of a Texas storm with terrential rain, the sky lighting up and thunder roaring. The morning was calm. We got dressed and went to check in at the B & B we were staying at. The nice owner actually picked us up and drove us there. Then, we journeyed on our hike. We took a train the the village Riomaggiore which was the furthest south of all the Cinque Terra villages. Then we started our hike. You can hike from village to village off the coast of the mediterranean and its really pretty! Unfortunately, some parts of our hike were closed off due to teh storm (landslides) so we had to take a train from Manarola to Corneglia. We then hiked from Corneglia to Vernazza. That hike was tedious but it was very much worth it! Lots of steps and climbing but the view was outstanding and we took a lot of great pictures.
Finally after about 3 hours we got to Vernazza. We had some coffee there and strolled around. Then took the train back to Monterosso since the remainder of the hiking trail was closed. We got dressed and had ourselves a yummy seafood dinner at a fairly fancy restaurant. They even gave us some free shots of some yummy bellinis and limoncello! We got pretty tipsy because we had also bought a bottle of the house wine of the guy who owned the B & B we stayed at and drank some of that prior to dinner. And..of course we also had wine WITH dinner.
Anyway, our night ended as the last night in Cinque Terra. Cinque Terra was a beautiful place but we were ready to move on to the next leg of our trip, outside of Italy.
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