Holidays in Toscana - part II

Sunday May 6th - Le cinque terre

Le cinque terre, a beautiful natural park inscribed in the UNESCO world heritage fund, was our destination on sunday. We drove to La Spezia, an important NATO harbour, and took the train to this magnificent place. Monterosso and Vernazza were our destinations; Le Cinque terre are 5 small villages, carved between the mountains and the see. Reacheable only by walk and train, they constitute an oasis in the automobilistic Italy. The sea has sculptured beautiful designs on the rocks, man has build pictoresque villages facing south.




We ate icecream and enjoyed a powerful shower. Milo and Kyara climbed some of the rocks, and Julia got mad. It was difficult for Milo and myself to give an explanation to the sudden change of mood of Julia. Maybe the taste of the icecream, or the rocks, breaking the waves. We medidated about it, long enough to allow another change of mood and forget the problem altogether. Julia collected items which are difficult to find in the Netherlands, especially stones, Milo and Kyara went playing with the see.


Loes took pictures, and most of the ones in this post are taken by her (the rest can be found here). In those I look older than I used to be. More wrinkles, less air, and an uncomfortable feeling of being in a beautiful place only for visiting it, and not for staying there.

You can hardly say the same for Julia and Kyara, who posed for a session. They look bigger, but still very young.