The Cinque Terre

After Pisa, we boarded another train (there's going to be a lot of train travel during this holiday) and headed to the Cinque Terre (or Chinky Terry as I christened it, to Heather's disgust). These consist of 5 villages built along the Tuscan coastline that have been UNESCO listed as they use agricultural methods that were being lost over time; getting the UNESCO status gave them the motivation to keep them.

The apartment that we stayed in was located in the Riomaggiore and had splendid views over the natural harbour. Being in an apartment, it gave us the opportunity to cook our own meals at night rather than going out to restaurants - although we only did that the one night out of 4.

On our first full day, we did the 8km coastline walk stopping off at the odd cafe to add to increase our caffeine/blood ratios. Fortunately the weather was nice and sunny, so we were able to get ourselves a decent tan in the process.

It was while in the CT, that England played a football friendly against Hungary. Fortunately our apartment had a tv with access to Eurosport, so come kick off we were esconced on the bed with a beer or two for the game to kick off.