Travel day:
Marseille – Nice – Genova – La Spezia – and finally, in the wee hours of the morning, to Cinque Terre!
This was the only time the whole trip we didn’t book somewhere to stay in advance… We took a cab from the La Spezia train station to the top of Riomaggiore, the first of the five seaside villages making up Cinque Terre. We looked down a slope of a hill, completely cobblestone, and started making our way down with our luggage. About half way down we decided we didn’t want to roll our luggage all the way down to the ocean if we were just going to have to head right back up the slope, so I sat with the luggage while Leah ventured down the main street of Riomaggiore to find us a roof to sleep under. She came back a few minutes later and told me we were meeting someone at the corner in 5 minutes haha. She had done like so many of our friends had told us to and gone into a pub to ask a waiter about somewhere to stay. Mind you it’s late into the night now – the waiter made a call and sure enough there was an elderly man waiting for us at the corner soon after. We ended up renting a room on the third floor of his family’s house – it was great! All we could do when we saw all the stairs was laugh... I’m talking 150 to 200 winding stairs leading first up to the house and then up to the room. The room had this amazing terrace though with lounge chairs, a table, and awning that we put to full use. We finally made it and got a great story out of it!
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