Wow, what a wonderful weekend full of amazing site seeing. First of all I hate the fact that the pictures I show you guys don’t even compare to being here. This blog is going to be a little longer because it is the weekend. I started my weekend at 6am leaving Florence and heading to Camogli (it’s pronounced like canolli with an m). When I first saw this place I thought it was the most beautiful place I ever saw, but it doesn’t even compare to the Cinque Terre (pronounced Chin-kay Terry). At Camogli we laid out on the beach, walked around and got some lunch. It was a beautiful and relaxing spot filled with a lot of tourists. From there we took a boat to a little town that I have no pictures of or remember the name. On this boat ride there was a older lady who lived in Camogli and gave us all a good life lesson. She told us that if you do what you want to do you will be happy, and to never do what people expect of you do what you expect of yourself. This was very meaningful to all of us. We then took the next boat to Portifino which is a town that is only accessible by water. It has recently become a tourist hotspot and where a lot of famous Italian actresses and models are living, making the prices of items very expensive. After that we took another boat which led us to meet our bus, where we went to the hotel. At the hotel we had a meal that literally lasted 2 hours, it was so much food! In Italy, it is impolite to leave food on your dish so we were all shoving the food down our throats. Because this trip was with the school, I had the opportunity to live with these two girls I didn’t know. They were both from long island, and convinced that I have an accent from upstate New York.
The next day we left the hotel to go to the one place I was waiting a month to see Cinque Terre! Cinque Terre is five villages that are only approachable by boat, hiking or a train that runs through the 5 of villages. Each village is unique in its own way and they are all absolutely gorgeous. Neither I nor the pictures can explain the beauty of this place. I had two favorite villages, the first being Monterosso which in Italian means the red mountain, don’t really know what it’s named that because it was all beach, and walking. The view of the water and sand was absolutely amazing. The other place that I think I liked the best was Manarola. This village is where I ended up buying some Wine and Pesto. The Cinque Terre is known for their white wine and pesto sauce. Manarola really stole my heart, I ended up putting my feet in the water which felt refreshing and the site seeing was so awesome. I could have just sat on the rocks all day looking at it, it was like a postcard. Over all I had an amazing weekend. It was actually weird to be in Cinque Terre where I could actually speak English to people and they understood me. My Italian is actually improving and I can have a conversation with others and they understand. Well class starts tomorrow, and I have yet to meet someone who is in the same class, so this should be interesting. Teniamoci in contatto! (Keep in touch!)
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