Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Welcome back Tina! Beautiful Tuscany landscape, and Riomaggiore... I have great remember from this place, a long neighbors fight... I'm affraid seeing how many people is is the Lovers Walk, I was there in August 1997, it was very, very few people, now is crazy! Saludos Lluis El 27/09/2012, a las 0:46, Tina Manley escribi?: > PESO: > > Well, we're back! After a very different trip than we had planned. > We > thought we would spend the entire two weeks hiking the Cinque Terre > and > packed accordingly - hiking boots, walking sticks, jeans and > backpacks. > Luckily, we only booked a room for three nights in Verazzano and > planned > to make the rest up as we went along. This is what we ran into on the > trails: > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/146311132 > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/146311135 > > On the Cinque Terre trails, we were slightly over-dressed in our > hiking > boots and jeans: > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/146311136 > > It was so packed with tourists, it was hard to move on the blue > trails, > down by the water, so after a day of "hiking" we moved up to the > strenuous > red trails over the hills. That cut down on the people but also > included > miles of hiking through steep forest trails with no views. (Some > views > were incredible and worth the hike, though!) So we changed our > plans and > rented a car, drove to Lucca and asked the tourism office about > Agritourism. They sent us to a 400 acre farm where they were > harvesting > grapes and that's where we spent the remainder of the time. It was > absolutely wonderful. I have 4000 photos to edit. This was our farm: > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/146311138 > > I'm not sure about the logic of traveling from a farm in South > Carolina to > vacation on a farm in Italy, but we thoroughly enjoyed it. The > family made > us feel right at home. There was a restaurant on the property where > grandma made homemade pasta every night. I gained about 10 pounds. > We did > do a lot of hiking in the hills around the farm and visited Lucca > and some > other hill towns. > > Photos to come after I finished editing them and washing clothes and > buying > groceries...... > > Missed you all! > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information