Went to amazing Cinque terre again recently.
Some information about Cinque Terre
The closest airport is to fly into Pisa airport. From there, if you are carrying very light luggage, you can walk to the train station (Pisa centrale) which takes about 15-20 minutes, depending on how fast you walk (YES its true you can literally walk from the airport to town! Even to the Pisa tower if you love walking as much as I do!)
So if you want to walk, get out of the airport, and it's literally a straight road out of the airport, crossing some random roads. Google maps will help you :)
Alternatively you can take the bus. I forgot how much it costs, but it's not that expensive.
From Pisa train station, you can take the train to La Spezia, which is the closest biggest town of Cinque Terre. It takes roughly an hour.
Also not that expensive. Should cost about 7.50 euros on the train regionale. The intercity train are 10.50 euros, but slightly faster and nicer and new trains. (prices are correct as checked on 25th September 2016 as checked on the trenitalia website)
I arrived fairly early to Pisa, and decided to explore Pisa town first, I think it's my fourth time at Pisa! At the airport, I met this other person who wanted to walk to the town as well, and we both decided to walk there together! Think it took us about 20 minutes.
Off to see the leaning tower of Pisa again. I find it super amusing to watch people trying to take all sorts of silly photos with the Leaning tower :P
I bought gelato to eat in Pisa. For your information, in Italy when you buy gelato, you get the option of adding fresh cream on top of your ice cream. Yes I know it sounds crazy, more cream on top of ice cream, but oh my goodness, it's so delicious, you just can't imagine how amazing it taste.
Sooo pretty seriously. I can't get enough of looking at this place even though been here a few times already! At night it looks even more gorgeous all lighted up, especially without the crowds!
Oh my goodness, he barbequed fresh beef marinated in olive oil, lemon, rosemary, salt; and sausages bought from the local area. It was so delicious, and the meat was melt in your mouth good.
And they carved out a huge watermelon and made beautiful sangria in it, with different fruits and lots of wine. Obviously I ate and drank so much. The sun was shining brightly with blue skies. Happy days.
We had a foosball competition, but I wasn't very good at it. Managed to get 2 shots in but I think it was by fluke more than anything. Few of his friends' children playing around. The kids are all so adorable, especially this boy Alessandro, he's only 2 or 3 years old I think? But he is so tall for his age, as both his parents are quite tall. He's such a lucky little boy, has so many nice toys in his play room. Also they had this huge dog at the back of the house, and it's just adorable.
Very nice party, we even had a bit of a karaoke session with one of the guys playing guitar.
We drove back to La spezia in the evening, and Lorenzo showed me around the town! He told me designed and built this beautiful bridge at La Spezia harbour. But actually it turned out to be true...
I think La Spezia has slightly strange looking architecture. So this is their cathedral, and me and Lorenzo both said at the same time that it reminded us of Oscar Niemeyer's architecture. It kinda looks like a spaceship to be honest, and slightly out of place especially in Italy, where they have all the beautiful baroque churches. But interesting design. Oscar Niemeyer is one of my favourite architects. I will do a post one day on his cool buildings designs I saw in Brazil :))
According to wikipedia:La Spezia cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in La Spezia, Italy. It is the cathedral of the Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato. It was built between 1956 and 1975 to designs by Adalberto Libera.
Some information about Cinque Terre
The closest airport is to fly into Pisa airport. From there, if you are carrying very light luggage, you can walk to the train station (Pisa centrale) which takes about 15-20 minutes, depending on how fast you walk (YES its true you can literally walk from the airport to town! Even to the Pisa tower if you love walking as much as I do!)
So if you want to walk, get out of the airport, and it's literally a straight road out of the airport, crossing some random roads. Google maps will help you :)
Alternatively you can take the bus. I forgot how much it costs, but it's not that expensive.
From Pisa train station, you can take the train to La Spezia, which is the closest biggest town of Cinque Terre. It takes roughly an hour.
I arrived fairly early to Pisa, and decided to explore Pisa town first, I think it's my fourth time at Pisa! At the airport, I met this other person who wanted to walk to the town as well, and we both decided to walk there together! Think it took us about 20 minutes.
Off to see the leaning tower of Pisa again. I find it super amusing to watch people trying to take all sorts of silly photos with the Leaning tower :P
I bought gelato to eat in Pisa. For your information, in Italy when you buy gelato, you get the option of adding fresh cream on top of your ice cream. Yes I know it sounds crazy, more cream on top of ice cream, but oh my goodness, it's so delicious, you just can't imagine how amazing it taste.
Sooo pretty seriously. I can't get enough of looking at this place even though been here a few times already! At night it looks even more gorgeous all lighted up, especially without the crowds!
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| The cathedral next to the leaning tower of Pisa, under renovation.. |
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| I suppose it's okay to take at least 1 silly photo? |
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On the train to La Spezia...
I spent the first few days with my friend Lorenzo who lives in La Spezia, and we went to his friend's BBQ party as it happened to be public holiday on the first day I arrived. The house was up in the mountain and it had the most spectacular view. As I arrived late with his other friend, we sat outside the table in the veranda overlooking the mountain feasting on all the amazing food.
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And they carved out a huge watermelon and made beautiful sangria in it, with different fruits and lots of wine. Obviously I ate and drank so much. The sun was shining brightly with blue skies. Happy days.
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I know it doesn't look that appetising in the picture, but trust me, it was one of the best meals I have had in my life!! They also had a variety of flavoured salt, one was Himalayan salt and the other was purple, have no idea what it was, maybe lavender flavoured? The meat was so tasty, just indescribable the flavours it created in your mouth as you chew it. It's so simple yet so good! |
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| The views are so nice, my camera doesn't even capture how amazing the views are.. |
We had a foosball competition, but I wasn't very good at it. Managed to get 2 shots in but I think it was by fluke more than anything. Few of his friends' children playing around. The kids are all so adorable, especially this boy Alessandro, he's only 2 or 3 years old I think? But he is so tall for his age, as both his parents are quite tall. He's such a lucky little boy, has so many nice toys in his play room. Also they had this huge dog at the back of the house, and it's just adorable.
Very nice party, we even had a bit of a karaoke session with one of the guys playing guitar.
We drove back to La spezia in the evening, and Lorenzo showed me around the town! He told me designed and built this beautiful bridge at La Spezia harbour. But actually it turned out to be true...
I think La Spezia has slightly strange looking architecture. So this is their cathedral, and me and Lorenzo both said at the same time that it reminded us of Oscar Niemeyer's architecture. It kinda looks like a spaceship to be honest, and slightly out of place especially in Italy, where they have all the beautiful baroque churches. But interesting design. Oscar Niemeyer is one of my favourite architects. I will do a post one day on his cool buildings designs I saw in Brazil :))
According to wikipedia:La Spezia cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in La Spezia, Italy. It is the cathedral of the Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato. It was built between 1956 and 1975 to designs by Adalberto Libera.
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