Date: Friday 9th May
Staying: Camping Arenella – Deiva Marina, Italy
Distance Travelled: 0 Miles
Song of the day: Here to Stay – Korn
It would seem that I am having a bit of a bad run of blog posts recently. All the exciting stuff appears to be happening on Laurinda’s days, and mine are travelling days or we don’t do a hell of a lot. Today was going to change that.
For those that don’t know of it, Cinque Terre is 5 small fishing villages along the Ligurian coast of Italy, between Genoa and La Spezia. Their economies were traditionally fishing based, but they also make Olive Oil and Wine (one desert wine has been described as ‘the wine of the gods’). The villages are accessible only by train, or by walking between them (each walk is of different difficulty). The area has been named a UN World Heritage Site, and if very popular with tourists.
Laurinda and I have been to Cinque Terre previously, about a year ago for our friends Mel and Bec’s birthday. We fell in love with the place, Laurinda particularly, so we planned in two days so we could spend lots of time in each village, as well as visit Portovenere which is just outside the Cinque Terre area. Well, that was the plan.
It appears that we should probably have written ahead to let the relevant authorities know what we had planned, or maybe it was the curse of ‘my day to blog’ striking again. What ever the cause, we got to the train station to discover that there was a train strike on, and that there was unlikely to be any trains that day (insert big sigh and shrug of the shoulders).
So, Deiva Marina is very, very, very small, and we were here to stay for the day. There is nothing to do there except sit on the beach, which we did, until we were bored with that and made our way back to the campsite before lunchtime. Its not like we could have driven to the villages; you can get your vehicle to the first, but that is the least picturesque. Strike this one up to experience.
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