Got up, packed our bags, had breakfast, said our good-byes to the friendly inkeeper at the Apostoli Palace, and left. We walked back, past the train station to the Piazzale Roma, where we caught a bus back to Mestre. Stopped a half block from our parking garage - much easier than the long walk to the train station!
We zipped out of town and headed toward Modena and the Museum of Balsamic Vinegar (who knew??). After lunch in a small family-run pizzeria, we took the very brief tour and then Chet bought some aged balsamico to bring home. Then we went across the street, and he bought some more!! (Lynne swears the shopkeeper saw him coming ....)
Past Modena, the landscape changed and became very beautiful and mountainous. We wound our way down highly curved roads and finally got a glimpse of Monterosso al Mare, which is the northernmost of the Cinque Terre towns. We found our lodgings at the Case dei Limoni, with the charming and friendly hostess and host, Maria and Marcello. They quickly offered us a glass of fresh lemonade and chatted as they checked us in. The room is nice, clean and fresh with a lovely wrap-around balcony that gives us a view of the hillside, over the town and the Mediterranean. We were both pretty tired, and in order to get up to the hotel you have to carry your baggage up a stone path that climbs probably around 250 feet. We both agreed, though, that it was worth it once you arrived.
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