Yesterday was not at all what I expected. I fully expected to wake up, get ready, hop on a train, and pop up in Cinque Terre. Nothing of the sort happened.
We arrived at the train station in Lucca about 11 thinking our train was at 11.30 (we had deutch bahned the schedule). But when we bought our tickets, it turned out that there was a better connection that the German website didn’t tell us about at 1.00. So we spent an hour relaxing in the grass and wildflowers on top of the city wall. The connection would have been fine if we had been able to make the 2nd train after a 1 minute layover. It would have been enough time for those in the know (aka locals), but not for two tourists.
We finally arrived in La Spezia and still had to take another train to Cinque Terre. As the name implies, there are five towns that make up Cinque Terre. Based on a recommendation, we decided to stay in Vernazza. Of course, the 3.27 train was late – a good 30 minutes late, meaning we didn’t actually arrive in Vernazza until hours after we had wanted to arrive there. Walking down the hill into the town from the train station, we started noticing signs advertising rooms to let. Greg asked at a pizza place advertising rooms and here I am sitting in a small wifi-less room with a small table, bathroom, and viewless patio. The room is really just fine, I guess I'm making it sound worse than it is. It's clean and comfortable, and that's all I really need.
Last night after we settled in with a bottle of home-made wine brought to us by the owner, we set out to explore the town. Unfortunately, we did not bring the flashlight as there are few path lights. The town is cute and quaint (I sincerely hope I don’t start overusing that word). We found a playground, a cemetery, a monorail (hopefully I can add a picture of that – it was crazy), and many interesting stairways. We plan on spending all of tomorrow and the next day exploring the other Cinque Terre towns.
This photo was taken on the playground. Greg was trying to get me in focus and everything behind me swirling. I quite like this photo.
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