Awesome! That is the word I would use to describe our time in Cinque Terre. After the hustle and bustle of Rome we were ready for a relaxing break and that's just what we did. We spent three nights in the Cinque Terre and hiked to almost all of the towns. The Cinque Terre is five small towns built along the coast of the Mediterrean Sea. After we checked into our hostel we hiked from the first town to the third town (easy hike). The next day we took the train to the last town and hiked back to the fourth town. This was a much more brutal hike. There were a tons of steps and Chris had to be patient as I huffed it up the mountain. Once you were up it was okay and absolutely beautiful! This hiked was 90 minutes. Once we reached the fourth town, Vernazza, we decided to take a swim. We had lunch and swam and jumped cliffs for a couple of hours. What a tough day!
After leaving the Cinque Terre, we had a stop over in Pisa for a couple of hours. Pisa is on the way to Florence, our ultimate destination. Pisa was just a cute town with really only one thing to see (The Leaning Tower). We walked around the Field of Miracles and tried to fix the ancient leaning problem by pushing it back up but unfortunately the ground was just too soft and it sunk back to its state. Which begs the question, Would anyone really visit Pisa if there was no leaning tower? We did think of La Nina, Derek. I think La Nina probably enjoyed Pisa as much as we did.
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