Manarola Travel Blogs

5 beautiful and small villages near La Spezia in Liguria, Italy.

I had the great pleasure this past June to visit five tiny sea side villages known as the Cinque Terre. The Cinque Terre were home to some of the most amazing views, rocky beaches, miles of trails, and wonderful people. I think I could live here!

I spent 5 weeks in Florence with 20 other interior design students from the States. We studied Renaissance art, architecture and the villas around Tuscany. I had the most amazing time!

Bottom to top, here is a blog about my trip to Italy. Check out this blog to read about my travels to Palermo, Catania, Naples, Pompei, Florence, Pisa, Cinque Terre, Venice, and Rome.

Our next stop. We did not wanted to stay that long, because we were already run out of time. So, a quick walk, enjoying this colorfull piazza and went back to the train again. We decided to skip Nervazza, which was more of the same, we believed. If anyone of you can prove that we were wrong, p…

Here I'm displaying some pictures of my vacations in Italy. We were visiting Italy from 1998 until 2007 or so. Every summer we were traveling to another part of the country. As you will see, the photo's include some sight-seeing pictures most of the time. I'm sorry for the bad quality and the messy content!

While attending the Andrews University MSA program at Villa Aurora, Florence, Italy almost all students went on a one day trip to the coast visiting the five villages called Cinque Terra. It is a very nice place where you can hike from village to village or take the train from one village to the next. The "best" village I thought was Vernazza but if you are into the beach, you should go directly to the last village Monterosso.

Quaint little Manarola, with it's colourful and vibrant road leading to the seaside, has an even more serene feel to it than Riomaggiore. Although there is no traditional beach here, there is a beautiful harbour area that had the best water for swimming and generally splashing around out of all the…

From Pisa 2 Cinque terre 2 Siena 2 Assisi 2 Amalfi Coast 2 Sicily all in 9 days. The Italian drivers are crazy!!! Overtaking on a blind corner on a cliff edge of a narrow rd with a bus coming for you in the other lane at 130km. Not us! but this is what your ordinary driver in Italy seems to do and all of them have bumps and scratches on their cars!!! So we are home safe and well. Highlight of trip: seeing a live active volcano check out the photos!!!

I am riding my motorbike from London, UK to home, Adelaide, Australia. I will be heading south to Sicily, Italy and then making way across towards Turkey. Then head down through Iran, Pakistan and India. From there I will try to make it into South East Asia. Hope to put motorbike on a ship from Dili, East Timor to Darwin. Departure Date 4th August 2008.

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June 2008

I will be travelling around Western Europe, first with my college buddy Collen around the UK, then with my girlfriend, Jennifer, around France, Switzerland and Italy.

This is my 3rd time to Cinque Terre (meaning 5 Lands). And each time, it gets more beautiful - if it's possible. There's plenty to do, with hiking the trails to each village, taking the train, swimming (even nude), or exploring the villages and experiencing it all.

long, random story why i chose to come here for an extra-long weekend, but was a beautiful trip. corsica's amazing, will be going back, and this time the weather cooperated so i could finally hike the cinque terre. (new to travbuddy, trying things out, might add words to this travel blog later. for now, only pix.)