Today we woke up at 7.00 AM (I know it’s early for our days
off but we didn’t want to miss out on the time we had there). We took a fifteen minute train ride to
Monterosso which is the farthest town away from where we are staying. We walked around for a while checking out the
town, then we met up with Morgan, Drew, Alex, Cameron, Kendall, and KK who came
to Cinque Terre today. We all loaded up
on groceries and rented kayaks for the day. We paid 25 euro for the rental but
it was well worth it. We had them from
about 10-5. We kayaked from Monterosso
to Vernazza, the next town over. On the
way we went into a few coves, admired the beautiful cliffs, and found an
amazing waterfall. The water was falling about two hundred feet straight down.
There was a grotto type area surrounding it and we stopped here for a good hour
on the way. We finally made it to
Vernazza, which seemed like twenty miles, and had lunch and checked out the
town. There was really bad flooding a
few months back in Vernazza, which is supposed to be the main town, and it was
still under construction, so it wasn’t the best place to hang out. We got back to kayaking and decided to go to
the other side of Monterosso. Monterosso
is in a cove so we went directly from Vernazza to a point on the horizon, at
one point we were about two miles away from any coast… would have been bad if
someone were to tip out there. We made
it to the point on the horizon hoping to find some cool cliff jumps, and sadly
there were none. Some of them went further;
Kyle and I went back and got a train back to La Spezia. For some reason the Mediterranean water has
much more salt in it so we had to go back to shower. We got another train from La Spezia and went
to Corniglia, the town right in the middle of Cinque Terre. It is supposedly a really wine rich part of
the coast; it is away from the water up in the cliffs of Italy’s coast. There was a lot of wine, just not the cheap
stuff that we needed. Couldn’t spend too
much seeing as I already have. We
eventually went back to Riomaggiore, the first town, and did the same thing as
the night before. We met some girls from West Virginia who were also here on
study abroad. We all got some vino, went
to our sunset spot, and watched the sun go down. It was a good time. We went back to the place and got a good night’s
sleep, actually being able to sleep in tomorrow for a little while. Check out
tomorrows post.
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