Cinque Terre: The Adventures of Swamerina and Katerina

All right, time to crack open another nut. This nut is an almond in honor of the homemade trail mix that kept me fed the WHOLE TIME we were in Cinque Terre.

Swamerina and I hiked, and hiked, and looked over the very steep, treacherous edges and hiked, oh, and we ate pesto. One of my favorite trips in Italy.

First hike, HARDCORE! We accidentally went on a “not well marked, no other people around, practically crawling on our hands and knees it is so steep” trail. At one point we seriously had about 18 inches on which to walk, if we went one inch too far we would have landed very, very far down--scary far down. I could not look to my left for sometime, vertigo would have consumed me and I would have become part of the Cinque Terre terrain for eternity. We loved it.

Our day continued with hikes that were very nice but not half as exciting as our debut to Cinque Terre.

We consumed an entire jar of pesto between the two of us in one sitting.

I want to work their for the summer, I actually came very close to asking for a job but then realized I miss my Bloomies and my family too much . . .

The trains had to stop due to rioting caused by soccer rivals. These trains, by the way, lean SEVERELY when ZOOMING the tiny little platforms. We managed to pull a classic Swati and Kate, we just sat chatting while everyone else left, the conductor had to get us off the train. So typical.

I got to wear spandex for an entire day and it was okay.

On our way home we stopped in Florence for a few hours, shopped, had coffee, saw Lili. So nice.

We DID NOT take a taxi home. Cheers! Eat your almonds.