Part II

Prost!

Having a couple with some of the locals at our table. From the left was a guy that was born in Montreal, Phil from Frankfurt and a young guy how sounded like he learnt English from watching Borat, so we called him, Borat.

After a those couple.

Florence and The Domo in the background.

Me and Davo. At over 5m tall it is an amazing proportionate, incredibly detailed sculpture from one piece of marble about 550 years old. You could see the veins in his hands and the tendons in the back of his knee, though it must have been winter!

Riomaggiore, in the Cinque Terra was our home for 2 nights is the first of the "Five Lands". Not exactly the weather i was expecting for the Mediterranean but still better than Vancouver. A 9km hike links the 5 villages which with lunch took us 5 hours.

Around the point from Riomaggiore we hiked to the next point and village Manorola.

One of many great view's looking back at Manorola and at left centre you can see the trail. The hillside was terraced all the way with olive trees and grape vines. Between the third (Cornigila) and forth (Vernazza) towns the trail we hike was the only way too Vernazza up until 20 years ago, it happened to be the longest and hardest section.

The Fifth and last town, Montorosso is the biggest, most developed and commercial of the five was where I cooled off my feet, i can now say i have been in the Pacific and the Mediterranean!

In Vancouver people lay on the ground and ask for money, in Rome they dress up as Spartans, pose with tourist and make a nice little earning.