September 15, 2019

September 15, 2019

Our new travelling group is on the move. We taxi to Milan Central station and board our train west. We hit the coast at Genoa, birthplace of Christopher Columbus who we have run into multiple times this trip. We follow the Ligurian coast south past Portofino to the Cinque Terre (Five Lands).

We transfer to the local coastal Cinque Terre train and get off at the second town of Vernazza. It is a madhouse of tourists walking down the single street of this small village tucked in a gap in the cliff. We check into our hotel and are escorted up more than a hundred stairs to our room. I guess that is the price to pay for a cliff side hotel. We manage to find a restaurant with open seating to enjoy lunch.

Afterwards four of us walk up the cliff south of town looking for a good view. We found a tiny bar/restaurant perched on the ridge. We instantly decided to enjoy the ambiance and bought a bottle of wine and sat for a couple hours. We thought about staying for dinner but found all the tables were already reserved. We got beaten to the punch!