Cinque Terre Hotel Booked!

Hotel La Spiaggia!

The Cinque Terre is a medieval grouping of 5 towns along the meditaeranian sea in North West Italy, close to the border of France. For thousands of years, villagers would walk the many paths between the towns to purchase goods, see friends, etc ... and today, cars are still not allowed into the Cinque Terre (yes, looks French, but pronounced "Chink-woe .. tear-eh")

Today, these paths that link the five villages are some of the most beautiful hiking trails in the world ... leading along the sea, atop rocky cliffs - with beautiful views of the sea and beyond. None of the five town's populations are near 1000, so they are quaint, small, beautiful villages that look much the same as they would have hundreds of years ago.

I guess that's why there were NO ROOMS available anywhere!! Trip Advisor, Expedia, bookings.com, random Italian websites ... I couldn't find anything. I finally stumbled onto THIS SITE and they had ONE room left ... a double with a sea view - and the hotel is smack on the beach!

After Florence, we'll head up here for 2 nights and then off to Parma.

The pieces are coming together!!

Monetrosso