Levanto, Cinque Terre, Italy – Day 2

Today we had a late start just resting in the morning. Main tourist destinations were to head south, recommendation from the B&B owner was the walks to the North were nicer and less crowded, so guess which way we headed. The Broadbent road less travelled option. We headed out at lunch time and started our first walk which was from Levanto to Framura via the tunnel to Bonassola. We had lunch at a café and watched the cocktail party of an Italian wedding. There would have been at least 14 children from babies to 12yrs amongst the guests, all in suits and very fancy frocks. They were quite gorgeous. The brides dress was very fancy but similar to the old fashioned tiered toilet roll holder of the 70s. They had a very fancy convertible for their wedding car and when they left everyone followed them and they did a loop of he town with everyone blasting their car horns for the whole lap. Very very noisy. We then walked a cliff top coastal bushwalk to Framura, which was very beautiful and then caught the train back to Levanto. It was now 5pm and we had walked for about 2 hours. Decision time – 1. swim and rest before dinner or 2. walk from Levanto to Monterosso and have dinner there. Walk time to Monterosso approx 2.5hrs. What will we do? After a gelato to help us decide we headed off to Monterosso. This was apparently the best walk in the area so DB read last night. It was a very beautiful walk along the coast, on the cliffs and in the bush again. One of our favourite past times. Once again a great walk but turned into a Broadbent sunset tour and then later a night tour as it had been dark for about 20mins by the time we reached Monterosso. Again the torch was required for the last stage of the 300m descent. By this stage it was after 7pm and we looked for a restaurant for dinner. After last night’s success we were hoping to manage it again. Dressed in our not so fancy hiking shorts again and sweaty from 6 hours walking today, we found a restaurant which turned out to be a bit too fancy for our attire. We only realised this after we were seated and the guests kept arriving. Oh well, our shorts and boots were hidden under the table, DB had put on his jacket and I had put on a scarf to help jazz up our not so glam outfits. The service, food and experience was lovely. Another successful seafood dinner in a lovely seaside town. A little more expensive than we would have liked but all good to me. We missed our train home by 10mins tonight so had to have another gelato to help fill in the 40min wait even though we had just had the most amazing dessert with our meal. We finally got home about 10.15pm in time to research our next destination tomorrow and book some accommodation. Venice here we come.

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