Day 8

Cinque Terre

Market in Cinque Terre

Seafood appetizers

Enjoying our meal

Terraced hills of grapes.

Coastline in Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre

Boats stored in Cinque Terre

We went to Cinque Terre, the Italian Riviera, and visited all of the five towns. The food is very unique in this area and different than traditional Italian meals. Each town was completly isolated with their own foods and dialect until the train service began in the 1920's. Our lunch consisted of a seafood plate appetizer that contained squid, octopus, fish pate, mussels, and very small fish. The pasta dish was spaghetti with pesto sauce, which is a local speciality. The beautiful setting of these multi-colored buildings against the Mediterranean Sea was breathtaking.