This is the hotel we stayed in while we were in Cinque Terre. There was a scooter parked next to it which was pretty typical, but I thought it looked cool with the flowers.
After breakfast this morning we walked around Monterosso since we didn’t do much of that yesterday. We walked along the beach and up a hill to get a view of Monterosso and the rest of the cities. There was a really cool statue on one of the buildings/hotels on the hill we walked up. It started to get stormy today so the sky was grayish and the sea was rough.
Although it was gray and hazy outside, the colors were still vibrant, the ocean especially. There was a huge rock out in the middle of the water that was split in two. It was really cool to see the waves crashing against it. As we were walking up to the older part of Monterosso it began to rain, and then it began to pour. Of course I brought my rain jacket on the trip, but I figured today would be just cool and not rainy so I packed it in my suitcase.
The rain didn’t let up so we took a detour into a souvenir shop. Brianna ended up getting a very cute bag in the shop and I got an umbrella. At the time it was pretty much a necessity, but it turned out to be a very good purchase. With umbrella in hand, we walked to the train station and went over to Vernazza. It was still raining pretty hard but we were mostly doing shopping today so we stayed pretty dry. My umbrella was great because I could keep my camera dry while taking pictures. It was a little bit difficult to hold the umbrella and frame the picture at the same time, but it worked.
The rain let up as we walked out towards the marina. There were a lot of brightly colored umbrellas at each of the restaurants and the tourist umbrellas blended right in. These cities are amazing! It is so cool to see all of the colors and the ocean and the vineyards. This is the view from the marina up the side of the mountain that we climbed yesterday. Up at the top is where we hiked to take the picture looking down on the city.
After walking around the marina for a while we went up into the city more and looked at a few shops. We then took the train back to Monterosso and walked around the older part of the city. There were some unique buildings there. One building was a church that was striped black and white. The thing that made even more interesting is that the stripes were rock, not painted. Inside the church everything was black and white too.
All of these cities had narrow quaint streets so every where we turned there was something cute. While we have seen a lot of scooters and motorcycles on this trip, we haven’t seen very many bikes until this spot today. There were quite a few of them all together.
These are some lemons they were selling in the streets. We saw a lot of lemon trees and a lot of lemons as we walked around.
After visiting old town we headed back to our car. We stopped for lunch at a café along the boardwalk. I decided to have another local specialty, Pesto. Pesto actually originated in the Cinque Terre area. It was delicious!
After we ate lunch we started the drive to Venice. I stayed awake to see the beautiful views of Cinque Terre as we drove up and out. The rest of the long drive though I slept. When we arrived just outside Venice, we parked the car and then had to take a boat to get into the city. It was pretty late when we arrived so it was dark. A lot of the pictures didn’t turn out, but I did get a few. Venice is gorgeous at night, but there isn’t much going on.
After we got to the hotel we decided we were hungry (considering we hadn’t eaten since 1:30 and it was about 10:30), so we set off to find an open food place. This ended up not working out too well for us. Nearly everything was closed or closing. We did get to see some beautiful streets and canals though.
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