Cinque Terre - Gelato capital of the world

From New Yawk we made our way to Cinque Terre, a little place in the north of Italy famous for its postcard-esque look. This required us to take a flight from New York to Madrid (without inflight entertainment so quite a boring flight), flight from Madrid to Pisa, and then a one hour train from Pisa to the first of the five towns (Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, Monterosso al Mare) of Cinque Terre, Riomaggiore.

We were pretty stuff from the travelling so we took it very slowly on the first day in Cinque Terre and walked the 18 km trail along the coast to the last town of Monterosso (stopping off for gelato at each town of course! =P). Its hard to describe Cinque Terre as anything but beautiful and even then that doesn`t quite do it justice. So i`ll just refer you to pictures (once i can put them up).

p.s. we also checked out the leaning tower of Pisa and yes we did take the corny shots of us pushing over the tower with one finger! =)


First shot from the train station at Riomaggiore


Postcard from Cinque Terre (Riomaggiore)


Another postcard...


View from our room


Start of the trail from Riomaggiore to Monterosso...very easy to the second village...second village to Vernazza was probably the longest segment and a lot of the people who we started with quit at this stage and opted for the train ride to the last town instead...but not your hardy PJWT explorers! =)


Vernazza..the town before Monterosso..or otherwise know as "the town with the tower"


The leaning tower of Pisa


Some of the other buildings in the same square as the tower...all quite straight unfortunately =)