Happy father’s day Malc for yesterday and of course yet another scrabble win!!!!
Now a job for you please…goggle Cinque Terri in Italy and read about this amazing area……
We walked down to the train station below the hill of the camp sight and went on the train about 45 minutes
…I had heard about the Cinque Terre(the 5 lands) from my friend Karen and wanted to visit and today was the day…..Janet and Malc and I had decided we would take the train to the fifth village the furthest away…I was going to hike back and see all the villages and J& M would walk and then do a boat trip and train back…so we parted company at 11am and off I went.
The 5 villages are connected by train and also by walking paths and my first walk to the next village was only about 20 minutes!!!!
The views here were awesome but it was packed with tourists…
I like this sign which was in one of the tunnels…
This is the view of the second village!!!
The distance from the last village to the first is listed as 9km and a duration of 5 hours and at the second village the problem started…the path between the next village was closed for repair so I had an option of catching a train and missing a village or doing the detour and extra 11km!!!!!! Guess what I picked???
YES the detour and then the climb started..
Getting higher!!!!
This is looking back down the path I had just climbed step after step after step!!!
Yes I went into that village and climbed up again!!!
The path!!
Yes I was down there too!!!!
Another village ahead!!!
A water break and the church in this village!!!
Onto the next village!!!
This where I am heading for and at last……..
a swim never felt so good!!!!!
More steps and onto the next to last one!!!
There were horrid floods here in October with much damage..
At last my final destination is in view!!!
It was 7pm by the time I got back to the train station to get the train home…I reckon I walked about 22 km and climbed thousands of steps…you who have been following the blog know I have done some amazing treks and this one was maybe one of the hardest but so spectacular!!!!!!! thanks for reading along…
because I was exhausted I let Janet win at scrabble tonight…well done girl!!!
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