Peggy here. We are just outside of Portovenere on the Cinque Terre leg of our journey. I am sitting in our living room which overlooks the Mediterranean. We are looking in the face of a sunny day, a relief after yesterday’s cold downpour. I have a private yoga class, then we’ll go to at least one of the towns making up the Cinque Terre and also to a marble quarry that Kathy is especially interested in seeing. Kathy’s high school buddy and her partner arrive tomorrow.
We visited a branch of Rosemary’s family on Sunday. We got to see the inside of the homes of three Italian families, have a meal with them, and sightsee in Genova, which is a beautiful and old city. Our Italian hosts were warm and humorous people and I’m glad we’re going home with pictures of them. Kathy and I returned on Sunday night while Rosemary stayed the night with her family.
The coast is unbelievably beautiful. It’s all about the fish and catching the fish, which is just as it should be. Kathy and I celebrated my birthday yesterday by having lunch in Portovenere. Last night we all went to a supermarket and even that was fun, seeing how the everyday citizen of the Italian Riviera lives. You can buy jeans in the supermarketo. We stocked up on food that we can prepare here in our apartment.
We are staying in an apartment that is accessible for the most part only by an outside “lift”. It’s sort of a ski lift and elevator all in one. The lift takes you for a scenic and slow ride down the side of a hill and stops at the level of your choice. As you hang and glide down, the local cats run alongside of the car hollering and wishing you the best. The lift has broken only once, meaning that we walked up the hill and down the hill in pounding, cold rain. It was fun to be aerobic and we talked a lot about our personal trainer, Derick Sligh, at Gold’s Gym. We will see if the lift is working today but even if it is, it might be a walk up the hill just for the sake of exercise.
The sun is out and it’s time to begin the day of fun in Cinque Terre.
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