Morning in Vernazza

Morning is when the locals head for the balcony to have breakfast, work, or just enjoy the view of the ocean. It's also the time when tourists with 300mm zoom lenses take pictures.

Here are four pictures of the locals doing their thing.

Laundry, and a lady with a turban.

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Laundry, and a lady washing the shutters.

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No laundry, a lady eating and her husband blowing his nose.

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Some laundry, and a lady watering her plants.

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Riomaggiore

The first city of the Cinque Terre is Riomaggiore. We mostly just wandered the streets catching the vibe.


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Fire!!!

We woke up our first morning in Vernazza and went out on the balcony to discover that there was a fire in the Cinque Terra. That led to our decision to hike the other direction that day. I noticed a quite a few cigarette butts on the trail that day. The got the fire out after a day and a half with fire fighting aircraft, so we hiked the other direction the next day. Sure enough you could see where the fire had started right by the trail. I'm sure it was a smoker.

Sunrise over the fire.

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Burned terraces.

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