Hello to all! Unfortunately we all had to say good bye to Maria last night and it hasn't quite been the same since. She is off to Barcelona a little ahead of the rest of us. Hopefully her and Brian will have a blast and leave their footprints in the sand for us! As for the four that refuse to leave Cinque Terre, we decided to hike the five cities today. Though it was a sweaty five hour hike through all the towns and mountains, the views were amazing!!! Not ...

Ciao!! Writing now from Cinque Terre Italy. Absolutely fabulous. This is our second day here and I think our site seeing has finally come to a close as we are loving just laying out on the beach all day. Cinque Terre means 5 villiages and we are staying in the 5th city (the furthest north and west) called Monterosso. We had plans to visit all 5 but the beach was calling our name. Today Jessy Liz and I all got massages on the beach for 10 euro! It was great. We de...