It started raining Saturday night when we arrived at the train station in La Spezia. The rain fell harder about 10PM as we discerned that La Spezia buses really did stop running at 8PM. We also discerned that taxis showed up at the train station only on the hour, when trains arrived. We finally got a cab and got back to the campground by 11:30PM, 16 euros poorer, but somewhat wiser. You'd think after five years of this we wouldn't be making elementary transportation mistakes. It rained, torrentially, nearly all day Sunday, but Monday dawned far more promising, and we were back on the Sestre Levante train, now to Monterosso, the farthest of the Five.
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I think Monterosso is the most photogenic of them--here we're on the beach,
looking back toward Vernazza--but Monterosso is the least "isolated," actually
reachable by car, and therefore, some say, not "typical"; of course all of them
are reachable by car, just not tourist car, and all have been reachable by train
since 1870; it's all just a bit precious if you ask me |
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Monterosso is also reachable by RV, which by itself should be cause for its
expulsion... |
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| Having walked along the beach/boardwalk a bit, now looking back to town |
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| In the farther distance, Corniglia, way up on the hill |
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| Beach fortifications |
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| In town now |
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Looking at St. Giovanni's church...Ligurian
Romanesque; also Zebraesque |
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| Inside |
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| Attributed to Van Dyke |
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| High water/mud mark from latest flooding |
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| Monterosso street scene |
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| Pretty coastline |
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| Close encounter |
1 comment:
I think I would not want to be in this region with it raining!
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