We arrived in Vernazza in the early afternoon, after having to take three separate trains to get there from Milan. After meeting the professor for the last portion of the trip, Todd, we hiked up to our various rooms to put our bags away. The room that I was in was up, almost at the top of one of the hills the village is built upon, and it took over 200 stairs to reach it.

Then, the group went up to the lookout tower together, and hung out until it closed at 6:30. The view was absolutely amazing. Little villages speckle the countryside, and many of them could be seen just around the cliffs. We explored the city for the rest of the evening, and took pictures of the amazing sunset over the sea.