Hiking Cinque Terre (9/14/11)

On Wednesday, it dawned bright and sunny and Carol, Larry, Margaret and Mary prepared to tour the Cinque Terre.  One section of the path was closed due to avalanche and the general consensus was that we would rather cruise than hike the section from Vernazza to Monterosa so we only ended up hiking/walking the section from Riomaggiore to Manerole and the section from Corniglia to Vernazza.

The temperature got up to close to 30 degrees with high humidity so the hike was very hot and sweaty.  Our first introduction was the switch back stairs from the train station up to Corniglia, it looked very similar to the Grouse Grind but ended up not being too bad.  Carol was able to augment her warddrobe on the way up to Corniglia so she was able to complete her ensemble.

We had lunch at a nice shaded restaurant in Vernazza, then toured about a bit and caught the train to Monterossa.  It would have been nice to spend some time on the beach in Monterossa but we settled for a gelato.

The boat trip back to Riomaggiore was really nice, we got to view the scenery from the sea side.  We caught a glimpse of the landslide area of  the damaged the trail and we spotted our rooms overlooking the train station.

All in all it was a very nice day.