If we got to pick one place to come back to…

We’ve just left Cinque Terre after 3 wonderfully relaxing days there! It is such an amazing and beautiful place!! it is a series of 5 little Italian towns on the coast of the Mediterranean, with a 7-mile walking trail (and some train tracks) connecting them. Each of the towns – Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza, and Monterosso are so totally picturesque, with all these pastel homes bunched together into their own little niche in the coastline. The first day, we got there in the afternoon (after a short stop in Pisa to see the leaning tower), and after wandering through town and finding a place to stay, dropped off our bags in our own little apartment, and immediately hit the beach! I don’t think either of us was expecting the town we stayed in (Vernazza) to be so resorty, but it was FULL of people enjoying their vacation at the beach! There was a concert in the square that night, which was nice when we were out there, but very LOUD when we were back in bed trying to sleep!!