Italia

The Riviera is a very populat area. We made it to the Cinque Terre which means "5 lands". Its a group of 5 small towns on the coast of Northern Italy. From the top, Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiorre. You can catch boats that take you from town to town or catch a train or there are a heap of walking tracks that you can do. If it wasnt for all the tourists around, it would feel pretty isolated because they are completely surrounded by hills and mountains. Whatever space they had had been built upon. Its a very rocky coast so the beaches arent the greatest. Pebbly and rocky beaches. The sun and area was great though so we went for a swim a few times anyway. We hired kayaks and explored around some of the rocky points which was cool. The towns are quite small, only having a few thousand residents
and you could walk the few kilometres between each town in one day of you wanted to.

One evening we managed to find a pub that was showing the Australia V Croatia game. There mustve been about 30 Australians there which was pretty amazing considering we were half way across the world in a small country in a very small town in a pub. Theyre everywhere! Heaps of American tourists here too.