We got a good taste for Colombian food during our week-long stay in Cartagena. Our favourite, perhaps, was all the beautifully ripe, perfectly fresh fruit! Vendors pushing wooden carts on wheels made the rounds and would pass by the front door of our airbnb. We would flag them down and buy deliciously sweet fruit; even […]
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Cinque Terre: Dinner in Vernazza
We fled the crazy crowds at Monterosso and headed to the next village in Cinque Terre, Vernazza. Unfortunately we didn’t get to visit Corniglia, the fifth village, but we ended our trip to Cinque Terre on a high note. Vernazza has the only working port (albeit a tiny one) where captains go fishing or take […]
Cinque Terre: One Morning in Manarola
After our breakfast in La Spezia, we took the train to the next village in Cinque Terre, Manarola. It was smaller than Riomaggiore, and had a small place to swim. The three of use walked around the village and saw where a landslide had wiped out a section of the hiking trail to Corniglia.
Cinque Terre: Lunch in Riomaggiore
Ryan, Sami, and I made our way to Cinque Terre after having lunch in Monte Carlo. We caught a train from Monte Carlo, switched at Ventimiglia, and then continued to one of the Genoa stations. Our late night walk to our B&B was just 10 minutes long and we got there just before the check-in […]
One Day in Aix-en-Provence
After spending a morning in Grasse, Ryan and I then drove on to Aix-en-Provence. We took the narrow, winding back roads of Provence, past national parks and remote houses, preferring a scenic route over the toll highway. I was driving a good 20 km/h below the 50-70 km/h speed limit, as there were blind corners, […]