Having enjoyed the beach for a day I felt satisfied and we decided we better begin to head home since it was a 9 hour drive with adults, and we have a 2 month old baby. We had two reasons to be concerned. 1. We thought we would have to break up the trip and stay the night somewhere along to way, for all of our sakes. 2. Remember we don’t have a passport for Hadleigh yet (well, I have it now, but we didn’t have it then), so we can travel freely without a passport in EU countries, but we had to drive through Switzerland, and Switz does not belong to the EU. If they didn’t let us in, we would have to drive around Switz, into Austria and then into Germany. Ugh!
Our drive started off rough. We got lost trying to make it out of La Spezia and than after only being on the highway for 30 minutes Hadleigh began to freak out. We got her quieted down and took off again. We made great time to the border and actually passed into Switzerland without a problem. Hadleigh was doing so wonderfully that we decided to try to make it all the way home. We got in a bit of pre-World Cup traffic in Basel, and then arrive back in Mettweiler at 9pm. It only took us 14 hours.
Upon arriving home we received news about the fallen soldier. I was glad for the drama in Cinque Terre because it made us come home earlier than expected. The Lord worked it all out in the end.
So, summary of the week. Forget the cities in Italy! Head to Tuscany and Umbria. Don’t drink beer in Italy, drink wine. If you are going to Cinque Terre make a reservation. And for the love of Pete, don’t think of driving into it, take the train or a boat. Also, I didn’t mention this, but Italians LOVE babies. We heard all week long “oh bella…bellisima…piccolina…” I have to say that I think the Italians have great taste because Hadleigh is the cutest thing in the whole world.
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