16/8/2002 Pisa, Cinque Terre, Lucca etc.., Italy (Phill)
Phew! Crazy fun days! Fieke (I need to learn to spell this one!) and I met up in La Speiza with the intention of spending a few days in the idealic settings on the Cinque Terre. Basically its a group fo 5 small villages lining the sea. They're still making it into the guidebooks so its largely unspoiled but certainly not lacking in the tourists. We went to the first village and managed to get a place to sleep but quite honestly by mid-afternoon we had realiyed that we didnt want to sit around idly for two days. We were having a great time.
It was funny cause I wandered around Venice seeing all the kissing couples and thinking: "Take it indoors, come on!" and now I was one of them!
We headed out the next day to Pisa, simply to see the Leaning Tower. It was pretty small actually and we didnt waste too much time there either. Caught an afternoon train to Lucca. Lucca is a georgous tiny town, surrounded by a midevil wall. The problem is that we arrived on an Italian holiday and really struggled to find a free room! But, in typical Phillip fashion, I bounced onto my feet and we found a brilliant wee place right in the heart of the town.
I really have to say that I had a brilliant time with Fieke. Being Dutch, her English is great, but I still got to expereince some literal translations of Dutch sayings which kept me laughing. My favorite two were talking about "growing up as strong as a cabbage", but perhaps even better was after kissing her being told that "you turned my stomach". Umm yeah!
Posted by Admin at August 17, 2002 02:22 AM