For my journey this past weekend, I went to Cinque Terra. I know I probably say this after every place, but Cinque Terra is by far my favorite place. I have never seen anything like it. The ocean is gorgeous! I am so thankful for the perfect weather. I read a couple of days earlier that it was supposed to rain the whole weekend. Instead it was sunny and warm!
When we got there, we changed and went straight to the beach. There was a tall rock that we climbed that was in the sea. I felt like I was on top of the world when I was on top. The vast sea spread before me with mountains behind me. I read on the beach and hung out with my friends for the rest of the time till dinner. There is a restaurant on the sea. It had really good food with the best view! This is when we received awful news. We found out that there was a train strike on Sunday, the day we were planning on going home. This means that none of the trains are going to run that day. Which also means that we have to leave a day early. It meant that I had to leave the most gorgeous place that I have ever seen early. So instead of leaving Sunday, we had to cancel or hotel reservations and leave Saturday.
After dinner, we went and changed for our night out on the town. As we were walking to the pub, we skipped and sang the do ra me song from Sound of Music. Stephen was in the lead being Julie Andrews. It was greatness (and the locals enjoyed it themselves). When we arrived at the pub, the whole top floor was empty. The pub was playing awesome music and of course all 20 of us were getting krunk! We sang “We are Young” together and it was awesome because we are young and wild and free! I love the group so much! I do not know what I am going to do without them when we come back to Texas!
When we were back at the hotel, one of the girls that I was rooming with turned 20 at midnight. We threw balloons and shot off poppers. She was so surprised! Let me just say that this was a start to a great birthday for her.
The next day, we woke up super early to get done everything that we wanted to do before we had to leave. Cinque Terra means five islands. There are five islands and we were staying on the island Montorosso. That morning, we took a train to Vernazza to hike all the way back to Montorosso. In October, there were major mudslides that ruined a lot of the islands. In Vernazza, you can see a lot of the devastation of the mudslides. A lot of the travel agents tell people not to go to Cinque Terra right now because of it. So the islands are not getting enough money to fix the devastation. I took a picture of a website that you can donate to, to help the cause.
We hiked for two and a half hours to Montorosso. I have never seen anything like this. It was beautiful! We climbed up waterfalls, hiked on tiny paths, and took super pretty pictures. I looked good in almost all my pictures because of the background. I was actually sweating and looking like a hot mess from climbing up super steep steps.
I love this place and really wish I could go back! I would definitely recommend going here if you ever had a chance. If you are married, they have a lover’s lane hike, which is supposed to be really cool. I did not have time to go on it. The beach is really nice as well. It is such a wonderful place!
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