Two days in the Cinque Terre

The Cinque Terre was beautiful. There are five towns that are lined up together. We stayed in the town that was farthest south, Riomaggiore (1st town). There's a picture of it below (not ours, just one we downloaded from the internet for convenience). We settled into our apartment and enjoyed a swim. It was very refreshing after a days journey on train coming from Lausanne, Switzerland. We also took a train to the farthest north town Monterosso (5th town). This is where we had our first taste of Gelato, and of course it was wonderful. Below our apartment they had a band celebrating the 4th of July for all of the Americans (no fireworks though). The next morning we got up early to walk to various towns. We left our town and walked to Manarola (2nd town). We weren't able to walk to next town due to a landslide last October so we took the train to Corniglia (3rd town). We actually went to go find a bakery that a family told us about but when we got there the building was destroyed form the landslide. After looking for our dessert we continued on our walk. It was a great view but so hot! We decide to take a swim in Vernazza (4th town). We caught a boat back to our apartment and I took a nap. We are not used to all of this sun and it wears us out. After, we went to a nice Italian dinner and enjoyed gnocchi and stuffed ravioli.