On Wednesday we went to a cooking class where we learned how to make homemade noodles and homemade ravioli! It was so fun and very interesting! The Italian women who do that everyday really have my respect.
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| My cooking group with our wonderful chef! |
This weekend we went to Cinque Terre! The Cinque Terre are 5 little towns built into the mountain side. We stayed in the first one called Riomaggiore and somehow got an apartment with the most beautiful view!
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| View from out hotel room! |
The first night we went out to a great restaurant with some amazing food! Everything here is so fresh, and that makes the food so fun to eat! The next morning we hiked from the first city to the second city which was flat and about a 20 minute walk. We rode the train to the fourth city and got ready for our 5 mile hike! We were felling pretty good after the first easy hike.... Little did we know that we had about 6 million steps ahead of us!
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| The hiking group |
As we walked up step after step we would take pictures of the beach we were hiking to, and we would all say "We are getting SO close!! We can do it!!" A few times we thought we might not but we finally arrived! I had never been so happy to get into freezing cold water! We stayed by the beach all day, which was amazing, but I had one minor mishap. It started when we decided that we would swim out to some rocks. When we got there jelly fish started appearing in the water!! I decided I was not going to wait around for the whole colony to surround us and took off for shore. I was about half way when I looked up and there was a HUGE jelly right in front of me! I had a mini freak out and all the girls thought it might have been the funniest thing they had ever seen. I am glad they had a good laugh while my life was in danger! (just kidding mom.. kinda.)
After a great day at the beach we rode the train back to Riomaggiore and went to dinner. We ran back to the house and some people went out and got gelato. We told them to come back and get us and we would be ready to go out for a bit.... when they came back we were dead asleep. I guess you could say we were a little tired after our long day in the sun. The next day we went row-boating! We explored a cave and learned that row-boating is a little harder than it looks! We were all a little seasick when we got back!
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| I was helping, I was the coxman |
All in all it was a great week and a great weekend! We are becoming accustomed to the lifestyle and figuring out all the secret places to go to and places to eat at! In the words of one of my friends on the trip, "I feel so European!"
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