Cinque Terre consists of five small towns along the cliffs of the Mediteranean Sea. The towns have rainbow colored bulidings and looks beautiful against the turquoise sea. Unfortuneatly, I was told that the weather was to be "temporale"...which means rain and thunder storms.
The tour goes even if there is bad weather so we had to go. It was pouring so bad and the wind was crazy. Despite the horrible weather we still got to see how beautiful this place really was. I was a little concerned about using English in these areas because it is not super touristy so most only speak Italian. When we first arrived I really had to go to the bathroom and this local started to have a full on conversation with me I had no idea what he was talking about! He pointed to the bathroom and I had a pleasant surprise. Inside the bathroom was this tray like contraption that had a hole in the ground. I got to squat over the tray and attempt to aim for the hole...lets just say the first time was not so successful...it made for a good laugh.
We had clam spaghetti for lunch which tasted soooo good. Cinque Terre is known for its fabulous seafood!
So Cinque Tere was not really my favorite part of the trip since the weather was not good. There is nothing to see there it is just to go and enjoy the weather and see the beauty. O well...
O and I forgot to mention the crazy Italian driving. It was supposed to take over 2 hours to get there by train but with an Italian car driver it took under an hour and a half!! I don't even want to know how fast he was going on the freeway with absolutely no turning signals just weaving through traffic. As we zoomed up the cliffs to get to Cinque Terre I got a little queezy and car sick because he was taking the turns so fast... I knew we were going to go over the edge any second!
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