The best weekend of my life: Day 1

I know that I have been telling horror stories while being here...from crazy plane jumping boys to getting sick however, this weekend I had the most amazing time of my life I feel like I finally experienced the Italy I was dreaming about. We went to Cinque Terra which is a providence in Northern Italy on the Italian Riveria. Cinque means 5 in Italian so this providence is made up of 5 towns on the coast. They are settled in between hills and the only way to get from one to the other is by train or hike! This first day we got to our hostel and it was right on the marina in the first town Riomaggiore. It is a cute little town with only one street and is definitely the quietest of the 5. Then we took a train to the 5th town called Monterosso and laid on the beach for a few hours. That night we got pizza to go and took it down on the rocks in the marina by our hostel. All 13 of us that went on the trip sat down there until like midnight just watching the sunset, talking and watching the ocean... it was so much fun and definitely something that you can't to in the US. For some reason after dark you get chased out of great places to just hang out and talk with your friends.


View from hostel windowView from door

The marina and town of Riomaggiore. My hostel was in the pink building on the bottom left!
On the train to the beachThe beach!
Cassidy, Caitlin & Jessica

Day 2 coming soon...