Friday morning 22 of us left for Cinque Terre. Cinque Terre is an area of Italy that is a group of 5 cites. We met at the train station at 6.30 am and took a train to Empoli then to Pisa and then to La Spezia. We missed the train from Pisa to La Spezia by like 2 min so we had to wait an hour for the next one. Once we got to La Spezia we took a train to Riomaggiore. We walked along Via Dell’Amore. We were like 50 ft above the ocean. It was so crystal blue! It took us about 30 min to walk from Riomaggiore to Manarola. Then we continued along the coast to Corniglia. It was like a 40 min hike along the coast. The view was amazing. Some of the girls stopped and swam at different points. Then In Corniglia we hiked up some 400 stairs to the city where I had honey gelato with mango.
We took the train back to Riomaggiore where we got Foccocia for dinner. I had tomatoes and mozzarella on mine. Then we watched the sunset on some rocks. All 22 of us were staying in the same hostel near La Spezia. We arrived there around 9 pm and hungout and went to bed.
The next morning we caught the 7.20 bus back to Riomaggiore then Erika, Johanna, Chelsea and I took a train to Corniglia and we started the 1.5 hour hike to Vernazza. It was gorgeous. We were about 100 feet above the ocean and you could see for miles. In Vernazza we caught the train to Monterosso. There we hung out on the beach until lunch time. Erika and I both got gnocchi with pesto and Jo and Chelsea got other pasta with pesto. Cinque Terre is famous for its pesto and Foccocia. It was so good. We had a beach front view. After lunch we relaxed on the beach. We caught the train back to Riomaggiore and shopped and had more Foccocia for dinner. We then caught the train with everyone else from La Spezia to Pisa then Empoli. 10 min after our train left Empoli it stopped on the tracks for an hour! Apparently a train in front of us had become detached so we had to wait for it to get reattached. We finally got to Siena and Erika, Jo and I took a taxi home cause it was going to be another 1.5 hours until we got home. Jo spent the night cause we were too lazy to catch the bus or walk her home.
Also our teach peter got bite by a viper snake. Friday he was in the woods with his kids and they saw a little snake and he thought it was just a baby snake that his kids could play with and it ended up being an adult viper. He had to spend the night in the hospital but is okay now. We saw him Sunday and his hand was so swollen but he said it has shrunk almost half way so it must have been huge. He is fine though just waiting for the swelling to go down.
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