| Page Views: 64 Last Visit to Riomaggiore: December, 2005 | RIOMAGGIORE by edwis - last update: Jun 26, 2007 |
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Riomaggiore is the most southern and the nearest village to La Spezia the southern gateway city. Here you will see REAL Italian life by REAL Italian people going about their business as opposed to Vernazza which has lost this and seems to be run by the tourism trade. The harbor is a quaint as you will find anywhere and the view from the cliff around the corner from the harbor is great for that classic harbor shot. The town is actually much bigger than it looks in the photos and stretches quite a way up the hill but still a great place to walk around and see the life.
This is where a park service clerk girl in a little hut actually checked our train/path walking ticket and gave us permission to enter the Via dell’ Amore on our way back to Manarola.
We noticed that you could always tell ‘the Germans’. They were the ones wearing the hiking boots and alpine-type shorts carrying tall walking sticks and always seemed to be on a mission. This reminded me of a previous trip that while in Zagreb, Croatia a shopkeeper asked me if I was German. Now on this trip when I went into a barbershop in Lucca, the barber asked me if I was German. I said no, ‘Sono Americano, di Miami’. Oh, they all seem to know about Miami and that always brings a smile to their faces. They see all the beautifulness on the TV shows and think that we live in such a paradise, since we were from Florida.
And then, what about the Swiss couples? We met a few along the way and they all have been the most polished, well mannered, friendly, willing to chat, very kind and well spoken people. In my next life, I might have to come back as a ‘Swisser’. |
|  | PLEASE SEE THE 'MONTEROSSO' PAGE FOR MORE PICTURES AND TEXT ON ALL OF THE CINQUE TERRE TRIP. |
| | PLEASE SEE THE 'MONTEROSSO' PAGE FOR MORE PICTURES AND TEXT ON ALL OF THE CINQUE TERRE TRIP. |
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