Vernazza

So we'll be arriving in Rome on Easter Sunday, in the morning. Although I'm not really a practicing Catholic anymore, it would be pretty amazing to go to Mass at the Vatican on Easter Sunday. However, given that most likely I will be tired, cranky, and in need of a shower, we're headed out to Cinque Terre on the train (by way of as many cappucinos as possible of course).

We'll be staying at "Egi's Rooms" just off the Harbor (I'm guessing behind the darker red building in this picture, behind the umbrellas) in Vernazza, right in the middle of the 5 villages (Cinque Terre = the 5 lands or villages). I'm also planning on having breakfast underneath those same umbrellas - providing the weather is nice enough, we'll be sitting there come Monday morning with a cappucino and whatever we happen to find to eat!

"And along the coastline there are five castles, at nearly the same distance one from the other: 'Rubra, Vulnetia, Cornelia, Manium Arula, Rivus Maiorche which now are commonly called Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore not only known in Italy but also the Welsh and British praise them for their wine's nobility. Note worthy to see like a spectacle, the mountains not only in sweet incline but also quick so that even the birds flying over tire. Covered with stones that don't hold back water, vineyards cover the land, so meagre and delicate that seem more like ivy than vines. From here comes wine for the table from a King".G. Bracelli, "De bello hispaniensi orae ligusticae descriptio", 1448

There's a path that goes between all of the villages that we plan to hike on Monday. Our view will look something like this one.