Coming to you tonight from Vernazza, in rooms rented from Gemmy. Gemmy was so very excited to hear that we did still come, as it has been rainy and cold here in the Cinque Terre region. Yep, we came via four trains —
Circumvesuviana from Pompei to Naples, which became extremely crowded with commuters and I was wondering how we were going to get off when we reached Naples since we were dragging suitcases, but everybody else wanted off there, too, so it wasn’t a problem.
Super clean, smooth, fast train from Naples to Rome with time to spare for our connection.
Mostly clean, smooth train from Rome to La Spezzia, which took three-and-one-half hours with many stops in between.
Little train from La Spezzia to Vernazza, which we timed perfectly and arrived as most of the rain-poncho-ed-tourists were leaving.
Our rooms are in one “house” type building, three on top of each other up steep, narrow stairs — emphasis on both steep and narrow. Pics tomorrow…Nanfitos on the bottom floor, we Baums in the middle, and Mealeys have the roof with the terrace. Each room has a private bathroom; Mealey’s bathroom just happens to be out on the terrace and up another flight of stairs. Gemmy told us that Mealeys should use our bathroom while it was raining and if it stopped raining they could use theirs. Ha. We’ll see.
Tonight’s gelato flavors were more exotic than normal — Anna and Dave went for the fig cheesecake paired with something called “cinque terre sweet wine crema”. I think. Nobody could remember the exact name.
That’s all for now. Travel days are tiring…even if we mostly sat on trains.