Six towns in one day!

Marilena poses in front of Vernazza.

Leaving Luisella's we travelled across the country from east to west over the Apeninies to a spot near Levanto, where we planned to visit the Cinque Terre National Park and visit the famous five fishing villages along the cliffs there. Unfortunately the campsite we selected there was infested with mosquitoes - we were afraid to go out in the open there were so many around. So, instead of walking around the park for a few days, we ended up crashing all five villages in one day (in fact we visited a sixth town - mistakenly we stayed on the train and overshot the last village and ended up in La Spezia).

Despite not having to walk between the
villages, we did a lot of walking up
hundreds of steps. The railway was at
sea level = sadly, not so the villages!

We got off at La Spezia (in error) but the city turned out to be excellent.

Another village, another view, another portrait.

The five towns are conveniently connected
by a railway line. Marilena poses here in
front of Monterosso station.