2 words, 3 letters

CINQUE TERRE.

O.M.G.

{we finally got here}

"Cinque Terre" {Italy}
literally means "5 cities"

There are 5 cities all on the oceans shoreline.

Some on cliffs,

others inside a secret cove. 

We were only here one night, 

{unfortunately, because it was so beautiful}

It was quite the adventure getting down our city of Vernazza.

{click for picture of Vernazza}

We kept driving and driving down this winding road

The road literally looked like a child's drawing.

You can't drive directly into the city,

so we parked our car slighty outside/above the city 

and walked 30 minutes down this tiny road our hotel.

We finally got to our hotel 

{Gianni Franzi}

rated #1 best hotel in Vernazza.

It was beautiful,

but you definitely had to work for it.

There were stairs after winding stairs,

then some more stairs.

But it was so worth it.

{our building}

{our hotel room}

We had a view from our bathroom window

And a view from our bedroom window

both were stunning.

After our big long day of driving and hiking to our room

we were starving.

We remembered that Rick Steve's

{best travel assistant for anywhere you go- click here to see}

that he said The Trattoria 

{which was our hotel's restaurant} 

was the best one.

So we thought, we better try this out.

I got a homemade italian pasta, with local pesto.

SOOO good.

It was so good that i even found the pasta and pesto 

around the corner, and bought it for later.

Spencer had an local anchovy dish 

that is very popular.

Then dessert- my favorite part.

Best dessert so far.

it was a mixture of homemade ice creams 

and syrups..... YUM.

After dinner we saw that there was a big light

 and a crowd gathered around the beach.

{like 50 ft away from us}

We headed over to see what the commotion was all about.

There was a local soccer tournament

they had matching t-shirts

and were all barefoot because

they played on the sand.

And their sideline markers was 

red and white caution tape.

They even had legit refs.

We stayed there and watched for the rest of the night

before crashing.

We woke up early, got breakfast,

and just chilled on the patio, one floor down from our room.

the view was breathtaking.

reminded me of the hawaiian island of Kauai.

{walkway to the patio area}

{view to the left}

{from my seat}

{to the right}

{straight out- loved this tree}

{view to the right}

{stairs that led to this patio}

We walked around Vernazza a bit more,

got some gelato, people watched {1st picture below}

climbed out on the rocks where the waves were crashing

and just relaxed until about 1:00pm. 

 {haha my legs got indented from the rocks}

{my SEXY husband} 

{facing vernazza from the rocks}

 

{sunset as we were leaving}

 {another of the Cinque Terre cities we passed}

 {and another one}

{and another one}

we LOVED it here.

it was so quaint

and so beautiful.

it was just what we needed!

♥ ♥ ♥