And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
While we were exploring Tuscany on our own, we met some friends in Sestri Levante, Italy. They were on a separate Truffles and Chocolate guided tour. Dinner with them, stayed in their hotel, then grabbed the train down to the farthest of the Cinque Terre towns, this Riomaggiorie (in the picture). We explored the back alleys, had a great pizza while sitting on the curb. We watched an elderly lady drop of bucket of food scraps down onto the street for the feral cats swarming there. A regular event, I'll bet! Walked down to this little harbor, bought tickets from the boat back up the Cinque Terre chain of towns. The boat come to pick us up at the little gray rocky pier in the lower right corner of this picture! We enjoyed the boat ride back, past the nude beach and on to Sestri Levante. Since then (1997), we have put together many jigsaw puzzles with Riomaggiorie as the theme! A different world! We loved it.
Might be a fun vacation.
ReplyDeleteCinque Terra translates as Five Lands. Actually it is five towns along the the Italian Riviera. I have long wanted to sail along that coast.
ReplyDeleteCorrect, this one looks like Riomaggiorie. I spent 2 nights there as a young man backing packing Europe in the summer of '01.
DeleteGreat minds think alike, CW
ReplyDeleteWhile we were exploring Tuscany on our own, we met some friends in Sestri Levante, Italy. They were on a separate Truffles and Chocolate guided tour. Dinner with them, stayed in their hotel, then grabbed the train down to the farthest of the Cinque Terre towns, this Riomaggiorie (in the picture). We explored the back alleys, had a great pizza while sitting on the curb. We watched an elderly lady drop of bucket of food scraps down onto the street for the feral cats swarming there. A regular event, I'll bet! Walked down to this little harbor, bought tickets from the boat back up the Cinque Terre chain of towns. The boat come to pick us up at the little gray rocky pier in the lower right corner of this picture! We enjoyed the boat ride back, past the nude beach and on to Sestri Levante. Since then (1997), we have put together many jigsaw puzzles with Riomaggiorie as the theme! A different world! We loved it.
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