Vernazza, Italy

We are currently in Vernazza Italy, which is part of Cinque Terre (Five Lands). It is beautiful here! We spent 10 hours at the beach today, crystal blue water, slightly cool, awesome. Some jellyfish but the sting is not too bad, says caitlin, who got stung on the hand (ps - if you get stung here, according to locals, take a smooth rock and go into salt water and rub out the area, to get stingers out maybe?, it seemed to work). Yesterday we hiked to a neighboring village Coniglia. Similar in look but no beach and just not as cool ;) as our village.




Shot from main Piazza (square), small beach and boat landing to the left.



Shot from our hotel room balcony, this is typical archetecture, stucco walls and buildings sort of falling over each other. Narrow walk ways and a lot of stairs to get into most places. It feels like we walk 10 flights of steep stairs to get to our room.




There are a lot of cats everywhere. Most are friendly and don;t seem to be ferral..



My first dinner, a traditional meal consisting of potatoes and sardines (or anchovies) with olive oil and tons of other spices and seaonsoning.. wicked good.