Monterosso - Vernazzo - Riomaggiore - Manarola - Corniglia - Monterosso

 

(waking up in Monterosso)

This morning after a great breakfast in our new hotel I walked out of the hotel to walk down the long, steep hill with a great view of the town of Monterosso. Anyway, mum said “you guys go exploring for thirty minutes and wait for us”. So we did.

View from our hotel

We walked down to the garden and walked around and in a cute little clearing we saw a cute little cubby cottage made out of cute little planks of wood and as we walked inside the cute little door we saw a cute little room. Sadly, the room wasn't as cute and little as it could be. It needed to be cuted and littled up a bit. We soon fixed that, we cleaned up everything in the house.

 

Mum, Dad, Zoe started walking down the hill. I, however, started running down the hill. When we got down I realised that there was an aqueduct with a river flowing right through it right out to sea. I dropped a few leaf boats down there. Mum, Dad and Zoe came down a while after me.

Then we set off on our journey/hike/walk all the way to Vernazzo the next town of the Cinque Terra. Its a climb up a massive hill and along the top and down the other side to Vernazzo. We walked over the hills finding as many waterfalls as we could. We also sailed lot of leaf boats down them as well. Here are some pictures of us.

 

 

That's me next to the beautiful view

 

 

 

Look at that cute little river

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway we got to Vernarzzo and from here I can basically explain to you in dot points what we did

• Had lunch
• Caught a train to Riomaggiore
• Then a train to Manarola ( because the lovers walk was closed).
• Walked to Corniglia over another hill - a very big hill with lots of steps
• Took one last train back to Monterosso

 

Afterwards I was really tired. But I thought to myself “drew you have just achieved your goal, you have just conquered all five towns of Cinque Terra”. By the end of it all we were so tired we just flopped into bed.

 

And so that was that, we had walked all the five towns of Cinque Terra.

 

Tomorrow we go to Switzerland I'm not sure what adventures I'm going to have there but I think they will be good.

I really didn't think Cinque Terra would be what it was, I thought it would be a delicate old town in the forest with little wooden cottages instead of houses and peaceful quietness surrounding it. Although I thought it that way, it was quite pleasant having it how it really is. I was surprised how much I actually enjoyed the walk, maybe there will be more like that in Switzerland?