Hike Day

One of the top items of our list of things to do while in Italy was to go hiking. There is a hike in Cinque Terre that takes you to five different villages. Unfortunately a couple of the trails were closed, but we were not to be deterred .   When we arrived at the hotel we asked Andrea, the owner of the hotel about the hike. Andrea is a very pleasant man, who knows everyone’s business and insists you do things his way.  He said he would give us the information  at 10:00 the next morning.  However, the train we needed to take to get to the starting point of the hike left at 9:29. This led us to believe he didn’t think we should do the hike. we approached him early and once again asked for information about the hike.  He explained that since the trails were closed we would need to take a train or boat to the second village.  The only other way would be to go around the village and that was straight up and straight down.  In a very stern voice said “do not go that way, you might get yourself  in a pickle”. So you know which way we went.  All day we kept reminding each other to be careful because we didn’t want t to get in a pickle and have Andrea angry with us.  I don’t think he would have been emphatic about it, if the first time he met, I hadn’t missed the last step and literally fell into his hotel lobby.  

Chloe's lizard's Italian cousin Lucia

Well deserved lunch break

Andrea's rules