Our Love, Cinque Terre, Italy

We only spent 3 days exploring the five villages that make up the Cinque Terre but we absolutely loved every minute of it. We were there Oct. 6th - 8th and it was our last warm destination. This was our vacation from museums and old churches. We spent the full first day hiking the 11 km. between the villages taking a million pictures unable to fully grasp the beauty surrounding us and sadly, our pictures don't do it justice in most cases. The next 2 days were spent on the beaches. We stayed in a really great place that had a book exchange (we got "The Hobbit") an awesome kitchen and our own room. Plus it was right on the water.



Our fantastic breakfast, probably the best we had eaten in a long time. David bought a juicer in Pisa at a dollar store so we had fresh OJ to boot!


View of Riomaggiore, the most southern of the five villages and where we stayed.


David taking the plunge! After David jumped, the guy up there with him chickened out and climbed down.


The "hike" was a lot more mellow then we expected but it was still gorgeous. This is David and Megan as we descend to the final town, Moterosso (the spelling is probably wrong).


We actually bought this picture...on a postcard after seeing this.


Posing on the hike even though we are all sweaty since we did the hike mid-day.


Once we got to Monterosso, we sat down outside for dinner and right when out food came out, the clouds rolled in and a crazy thunder and lightening storm hit. It got really windy and tree pits were flying into our wine but remember we were still hot and sweaty so we really didn't care. It was really exciting to enjoy muscles and swordfish for the first time with a new friend in the middle of a storm. I mean really, why not?