Cinque Terra
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
WOW! Awesome place! We decided yesterday that today would be a day of rest and relaxation. We slept in this morning as long as we could. Debby and Nancy headed for the grocery store and picked up some food for our kitchen and breakfast. That farm girl, Nancy, cooked up some ham and eggs! Good girl!
It rained most of the morning. It wasn't a downpour or anything like that; a lot like an Oregon rain. Later on we took a stroll around town and along the ocean cliffs. The city is built on hillsides; very steep walkways and streets (if you can find a street). Most all the buildings have apartments above the first floor; those are the stores and restaurants or shops. The cliff side rock formations were most unusual! I had never seen anything like it. It appeared like some serious volcanic upheaval occurred probably sometime during the Codgerzoic Period or, perhaps, even before.
We decided to sit down for lunch and picked one of the busiest restaurants on the street. An old Codger theory is that the busier the restaurant the better the food! If you go into a restaurant at high noon and nobody's in there...Codger beware, I always say! Anyway, Nancy and I chose a Pasta dish with Scampi. Debby had a Ravioli dish while Ron chose some Prawns. As we have Red Lobster in mind, we anticipated food that looked like what we are used to seeing. Well, when the food came.....I hope I can post a picture of this stuff.... we about fell out of our chairs! Nancy and I had a plate full of gooey looking pasta dough, mostly cooked, lying in an oily red sauce, with 3 Scampi sprawled out on top of the heap, belly up like three drunken sailors! They were as whole as when they were pulled from the Ocean,about 4" long, not counting the 3" whiskers hanging over the plate! Their pitiful little beady eyes just looking at you as if to say, "How COULD you?".
After we recovered from lunch, we took a train ride up to the 5th city, Monterosso to take a look around. This city is closest to the beach, actually HAS a beach, and is a bit different than Manarova where we are staying. It was late and we didn't stay long, but had an ice cream cone and took a few pictures.
Back in our apartment, Nancy cooked up a delicious meal of pasta noodles with spaghetti sauce, salad and bread. I ate all of mine because I was very hungry! It was all good!
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