Cinque Terre

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Touring Cinque Terre with the Nobility

We’ve had our share of clients with impressive resumes — former CEOs of Big Three automakers, members of the Federal Reserve Board — but recently we found ourselves with an unexpected type of VIP: real, honest-to-goodness Italian nobility.  We certainly didn’t know this ahead of time, though if we had […]

Cinque Terre Trains 2016

Everyone knows that traveling by train in the Cinque Terre can be a nightmare.  Way too many people, tiny stations with short platforms, irregular train schedules.  Last season (2015) — in our own opinion as guides — the train service was a bit improved from previous years, but it was still […]

The Via dell’Amore Is Closed … Still

The Via dell’Amore — the most famous part of the Cinque Terre — was closed in September 2012 because of a rock slide.  Since then, we have watched countless tourists arrive in one of the two towns the walkway used to connect (Riomaggiore and Manarola), stop speechless in front of the […]

Rural Entertainment in Levanto

I know that this looks totally staged, but my daughters really did pull out two chairs to watch our neighbor use his rototiller on his garden.  Perhaps the fact that we don’t own a television has something to do with their fascination in things like this.  Let’s just say, though, that […]