After a short train trip from Florence, we made it to Vernazza on the northern coast of Italy on the Mediterranean Sea. After all the frenetic surging through the crowds of Rome and Florence, we were really looking forward to just chilling out a bit and while the crowds are here too, but so is the sea and the scenery.
The Villa we are staying at for the weekend is high of above the town of Vernazza and it is not an easy place to reach. It is a series of stone steps and trail that interconnects all the towns along the coast, so well traveled but don’t forget your deodorant. But well worth the climb.
The hills are supported by a series of retaining walls and grapes cover the hills sides in very steep rows. The locals prefer the whites produced by the grapes, which we have tried and they are quite good.
The meals are obviously Mediterranean inspired and from the sea, anchovies being one local source.
As you can imagined the sunsets are quite nice and very photogenic.
Especially when you come across some of the locals as the sun recedes to close another day in very beautiful Vernazza.
When we got back to our villa last night the stars were out, as there is not alot of light to obscure the view and the wind was howling down from the mountains. The sound was very impressive, atleast to me so I posted the audio here not very much of a visual but imagine you are poised high over the town and the sea below, it allows you to imagine what this area was like a 2000 years ago when the Romans, and before them the Greeks, plied these seas and caught those winds.
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