Casa Duomo - Manarola, Cinque Terre, IT (Day 5 of 6)

 

Raining again, but we still have one more town to explore, Riomaggiore.  We are staying in an apartment across from a Wine Tasting bar.  Every morning, the trash collector comes to take away a truck load of empties.  

The train schedule has been disrupted by maintenance work, so there are 30 minute delays on most trains which makes for even larger crowds at the stations.  Our trip to Riomaggiore takes only two minutes, once we finally get started.  Our biggest decision of the day is, again, whether to eat a big lunch and a small dinner or vice-versa.  Today, we opt for panini (sandwiches) for lunch, which I inherently think of as small, but Deb apparently thinks of as big.  Hmmm!

The afternoon has cleared and the walk from Riomaggiore to Manarola is only about a mile.  Of course, the path is straight up and then straight down.  Views are lovely, and the smells are great. Coming down into Manarola, we come across a younger man who has apparently slipped and hit his head and is spitting blood.  His party has called Mountain Rescue, who were arriving just as we got to him, with medics and a stretcher.  We could see down in the town where ambulances, rescue vehicles and police cars were assembling.  After awhile, a helicopter arrived on the scene as well, but left without providing any aid.  After about an hour or so, everybody just left. (Sorry, no closure on this!)

We finally got to the Wine Bar across the street, sampled some wine with a charcuterie board, delighting in the knowledge that we were going to hear our wine bottles crash into the trash truck tomorrow.  Deb felt that the charcuterie would be a sufficient dinner, I was not of the same opinion.

In Portsmouth, we have the 110 Grill, across the street, as our easy, we’re not cooking tonight, go to.  Here we have La Regina de Manarola as our, across the street, go to place.  Deb had a Caprese Salad and I had a ham and artichoke pizza.  So we survived another day!

Tomorrow is our last day, and we have been to all the towns, so we are going back to our favorite, once we figure out which one that is!