Portovenere, Cinque Terre and the Coast

We miss Susan in Montestigliano!

The sea is beautiful, but until today, the weather has been cold, blustery and downright awful.

Our apartment is nice, but it is about one third the size we thought it would be. The beds are the best we've had so far, but the furniture is quite uncomfortable. The kitchen is a hallway, but doable with just 2 burners and a pint sized fridge. Peggy thinks it was made for smurfs. The couches are very low to the ground and provides zero support. Oh well, we aren't supposed to be sitting around anyway.

We have had more driving adventures. We went to Pisa on the way to the coast and got lost as we left. We wanted to head north towards Genova. We reached a 4 way intersection and there were 4 signs pointing north, south, east and west that said 'Genova'. Which way to go? We just started to laugh, stopped at a Tabacchi for a cafe latte and asked the owner for directions. "It's easy!" he said. Well, it was once we knew where we were going.



I am not fond of very high places. When we reached our destination and stood looking down over the cliff about 600 or 700 feet above the ocean and the "lift" that was to carry us, 2 at a time, to our destination, I gulped. Luigi, the owner (who speaks no Inglesi) took us one by one down the cliff in the lift so he could teach us how to operate the thing. It is really something. The olive trees and huge terraced gardens are lovely. I try not to focus on how high we are in the air and what long way down it would be if we fell.

Well, I have wasted a couple of Euros trying to figure out how to upload some cool photos but alas, we are not allowed to do so from these machines. Perhaps later. Rosemary is trying, too. I am off to the WIND store to get our cell phones configured. Here's hoping we'll be able to blog from the comfort of Rosemary's computer in the evening.

Ciao.

-Kathy