Cinque Terre - Corniglia

Sunday morning we found a church to attend (it wasn’t really in a chapel, but in like a shopping center) and then with the help of lots of the members we found our way to the train station to head off towards Cinque Terre. It was a pretty long train ride, but it was the prettiest thus far as lots of it ran right along the ocean.
There are five cities in the Cinque Terre and we were scheduled to stay three nights there. We stayed our first night in Corniglia which is the third city and the only one not right on the beach. It is up on a mountain and it is also the smallest of the five. We had to haul our bags up a pretty rigorous zig-zagging mountain but eventually we made it. The Cinque Terre really is an amazing place. All five cities are along the ocean and they are pretty much built into the mountains. Each town is filled with many multicolored buildings with various hole-in-the-wall shops.
In Corniglia we made our way through the narrow passageways and up a lot more steps until we finally found our place.

It was a bed and breakfast owned by a really nice lady named Elizabetta. The place was easily the nicest place we stayed thus far. It was two floors and looked brand new. The ground floor had a kitchen and a table and a couch that turned into a bed. Upstairs was a little room with low ceilings, a bathroom, and best of all – a terrace overlooking the city and ocean.

We bought pizza (we got pizza all the time in Italy – we love it much more than American pizza because it has fresher ingredients and thinner crust) and ate it on our terrace as the sun set in the background.


That evening we played games (the bowl game) and Em and I decided to go out and get Gelato (still haven’t missed a day) and chill on a nice overlook near the town square.