Cinque Terre

What We Saw in Cinque Terre

We were in Cinque Terre (which is actually a grouping of 5 towns) for three days. Riomaggiore This is the town we stayed in, on the recommendation of a blog post by a woman who met her husband here. It turns out that a number of local boys had married women from outside Italy –…

Cinque Terre Dinner

What We Ate in Cinque Terre

Km 0: I would definitely recommend this place, which was a small local cafe. The name is an Italian reference to locally-sourced ingredients. I ordered the rice salad, which was a delicious cold rice and pickled vegetable salad. B had the anchovy sandwich (because the region is known for anchovies), which tasted like a lot of salt and a little butter…

Cinque Terre Boat

Blending In With the Locals

Yesterday, we took a little tourist ferry from one town in the Cinque Terre to another. People said that the small villages looked different from the water than from land, so we opted to test the hype. (Mostly true.) We bought our tickets and headed to the boat dock, which was just a slab of…