We started off our second-to-last day in the Cinque Terre by taking the train to Vernazza for breakfast: There was supposed to be a market that day, but since the weather was threatening, there were only a few meager stalls, mostly selling non-food items. We had our breakfast and walked around the village a bit. Vernazza used to have a river flowing all the way through it, but now the river has been shunted underground at a certain point. If you walk to the top of town you can see it, along with some ducks and geese that hang out there to get fed by whoever comes along. J. and I then went to sit and have an espresso and wait for the train to Corniglia, the only town we hadn't yet visited. Corniglia is home to the local nude beach (which we skipped) and is the highest of the towns, elevation-wise. We had to walk up a buttload of steps to get there. Look at me go: That's actually me going down (a lot faster than I came up), but I did come up them as well. There is a bus that ta...
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soba looks yummy... you know it takes like eight years to learn to become an officially sanctioned soba maker? or maybe that's sushi.. in any event, they take their foodstuffs seriously over there. oh--speaking of japan, look out for my "weird manga t-shirt posting" at the nightcap. should be up soon
speaking of first posters, have you seen this?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ciG-Xs7mBwU
I think it takes a lot of study to be an official maker of anything in Japan. Have you ever seen Tampopo?
We saw a great deal of weird t-shirts in Japan. If you come down again, I will wear mine just for you.