wish you were here

CINQUE TERRE
which means 5 lands (more like towns)
it was so good; it was kind of rainy and gloomy the whole time and we still thought it was so beautiful.

when we first got to moterosso it was already dark, but when we heard the ocean when we got off the train, we immediately went to it.

we spent a surprising amount of time throwing rocks into the ocean
we couldn't wait until we could actually see how beautiful it was

we stayed in monterosso (the beach city) and started the hike from there the next morning (after a DELICIOUS fococcia bread sandwich. seriously, best bread ever)
the hike was along the mountainside, so the path was kind of narrow

DANGER
nah, it wasn't too dangerous, we're young, we can take it

this tree, literally growing horizontal from the mountainside

the boys
we found a cool bridge and stream and refilled our water bottles

a lot of this going on, another beautiful thing, blah blah blah

oh- what's that we see?? the next city peaking out??

there it is, vernazza :)

all the boats!

we stopped for lunch and it started to rain :( so we decided to take the train to the next city, corniglia
in corniglia we only did one thing: visit a place called enoteca il pirun. it was awesome.

the owner served us wine in these glasses, called piruns
you try to move it as far from your face and as high without disturbing the stream of wine
they gave amateurs bibs, which were definitely used