After waiting in line to use the shower and toilet we begin making phone calls only to find out that every hotel between Portofino and La Spezia is booked. Super! New plan, stay one more night in the dump with the bathroom down the hall, and take the boat into Cinque Terre, and the train back to La Spezia. Dave was happy because the car was locked up in the hotel garage, so our stuff was safe and his wine was out of the sun.
The boat ride was wonderful. I got a little nervous because the last boat ride of this sort that I had been on was in the 6th grade when I went whale watching. I didn’t see any whales because I was hanging my head over the side of the boat puking. But, no puking this time. The ocean was beautiful and the little towns were beautiful. We got off in Montorosso, had lunch, got a gelato, put our feet in the water and got on the train to Vernazza.
We piddled around Vernazza...
...and then headed to Manarola where we got off the train...
...and hiked to Riomaggiore. We had dinner there and enjoyed an Italian Tirolean concert (don’t know why they were in Rio, but OK). This area is famous for their pesto, so I enjoyed pesto gnocchi which was to DIE for. 
After dinner we watched the sunset and enjoyed a wonderful conversation with a couple from Doraville, GA. And then took the train back to La Spezia. Instead of trying to figure out the buses at 1100pm we decided to take a cab back to our hotel. He almost killed us (crazy Italian drivers), but we made it back to our hotel with only a few more gray hairs (that is what hair dye is for!).
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