Italy trip - Cinque Terre


Hello, everybody,


Today we talk about amazing Cinque Terre :) - also a one day trip, having the starting point in Genova where we stayed.

The train ride from Genova to La Spezia Centrale was around 1 hour and a half and again I recommend to leave very early in the morning.

From La Spezia Centrale you have to buy a Cinque Terre pass (around 35 Euros / person) and this pass allows you to go around the 5 villages (Riomaggiore - Manarola - Corniglia - Vernazza - Monterosso) all day long by train. And the train comes and goes twice per hour.

The only place we did not visit was Corniglia - it was very hot and climbing up (382 steps) to get there was out of the question.
I heard that there is also a bus (to quote wikipedia " sometime a small bus runs") - but maybe next time :)

Again I do not recommend to stay in Cinque Terre - very pricey and there are not a lot of things you can do, except walking around with hundreds of other tourists :) and get some tan on very small, rocky beaches.

I suggest to do this type of one day trip because it is great.
And the views are very colourful and catchy.

Manarola

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And since we wake up early, we had to eat something :)
We found a small place (La Cantina dello ZioBramante) where they had pizza slices / sandwhiches  and we took a home made speciality: farinata al pesto. It was a little bit oily, but very tasty. 



Riomaggiore






In Riomaggiore we ate the best seafood mix ever.
You have to try it - there are a lot of places from where you can take it to go and it is the freshest ever.


Vernazza



Monterosso




Where to eat:

And then we ate again :)
This time in Monterosso at a local Pizzeria place called La Smorfia. 
Totally recommend it - they have around 50  types of pizzas. 
And in case you don't know what rocket is (it appears on a lot of pizzas) - well it is rucola :) and it is good. 



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Stay close, because next post will be Florence.

Long live the green!
Ionela

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