Spring Break, Italy Edition.....day 5 and 6 Pisa and Cinque Terre

Our next leg took us to Pisa but since the only thing to see in Pisa is the church and the tower we just made it a stop on our way to Cinque Terre.

 This is the entire site of Pisa. 

 We decided not to climb to the top of the tower, after all the tower is what we wanted pictures of. I was also tired from Florence and didn't feel like climbing the 200+ stairs.

 Just like all the rest of the tourist you have to have a pic of pushing the tower over or holding it up.

 We left Pisa and went to our B&B to be able to explore Cinque Terre the next day.

We booked our B&B on https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1030343 and Barbara was a great host, the room was fantastic and view outside our window was beautiful.  If you decide to visit Cinque Terre look her up.

 The road to Cinque Terre was very small and winded around, over and through the mountains.

 Whenever we could find a place to pull over we did to take pics the views were outstanding. 

 No matter how steep the side of the mountain it was all used, there are vineyards all up the side of the mountains and their is a single person rail system built into some of the land for the locals to harvest the grapes.  It looked like a scary one man roller coaster.

This picture does not show just how steep this is. Cinque Terre is made up of 5 villages, Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore. 

We Parked at Monterosso and it was a beautiful site.  It is the only sand beach between the 5 villages, You can see in the above pic that the hotel has carved out a man in the rock overlooking the water.

 Because of the steep terrain there is only 2 streets lining this village most are souvenir shops, but there are restaurants and hotels too.  We hopped on the train and went to the next town. 

 Vernazza has one main street to walk down to get to the cove.  We stayed here, ate lunch and looked at the water. 

This is still a main fishing village, you can see fisherman coming in and out of the cove constantly.

 This was a great place to sit at the outside cafe and eat a late lunch. 

 I love this pic of Zack and Jonah on the rocks overlooking the water.

We found a tunnel to walk through and this is what was on the other side. There was a few people sunning and others just looking into the waters. The construction of the houses on the cliff edges where cool.  This is all we had time to visit on this trip, I hope we are able to come back and visit the other 3 villages.  There is a hiking trail between the 5 villages, I think that would be a fun trip and prob some great pics.