My wife and I just returned from a two-week honeymoon in Italy. We delayed the trip a few months after our wedding hoping that we'd miss the peak tourist season.
Didn't work.
Cinque Terre -- five tiny hill towns perched precariously on cliffs along the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea -- has a reputation for being quiet and relatively undiscovered by tourists. Something changed recently because even in late September, we fought shoulder-to-shoulder crowds and fully booked rooms. We got lucky and found a small apartment room in Corniglia, the smallest and hardest to access of the five towns. This is a watercolor scene onto al mare from the narrow street below our room. Every day starting around 9AM, hundreds of tourists march down this street to the bella vista beyond, but by 7PM or so, the town quiets down and becomes quite magical.
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Hey, nice work... And nice nick!
But, i have to correct you: it's Cinque Terre not Cinque Terra...
Cinque Terre means "Five Lands", if you say Cinque Terra it's "five land"...
... I know, I know... I'm always too fussy... sigh...
You are absolutely right, sara. I'm busted. You wouldn't know it, but during our honeymoon, I was the designated Italian-speaker. To paraphrase a line from the movie Johnny Dangerously, I continued to murder the Italian language -- and anyone who stood in my way!
I've finally gotten around to correcting the spelling.
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