Cinque Terre

After the wedding we changed our plans and instead of heading straight to Rome we drove to Cinque Terre with some of our friends. These five villages are so pretty perched on the edge of the cliffs. We now know what all five villages look like because we did the walk from Riomaggiore to Vernazza. It took us about 3 hours but it was he best way to check out all the cliff top views.


When we did arrive at Vernazza all hot and dirty from the walk the first thing we had to do was jump in the crystal clear water. The water here is lovely and cold and refreshing. We dried off and headed straight up to the tippy top of the cliff to a restaurant that served cold beer and seafood to die for. What more could you ask for.

Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the restaurant but it was up beside the castle on the cliff top. We tucked into some seafood anti-pasta that tasted like it was straight from the sea. Marinated squid, king fish and anchovies. I always thought of anchovies as those little hairy things on pizzas but since coming to Italy I have a new appreciation for the lemon marinated version that seems to melt in your mouth.

For mains we had a seafood risotto that I am putting up there with one of the best Risottos I have ever had. Moist with a bite to the rice and the most delicious seafood flavour. It also helped that there we so many jewels of the sea throughout. Benissimo !!!