Day 24 - Interlaken to Cinque Terre

Got up at 7:30 and hit breakie then walked to the train station to catch the 9:23 train to Spiez and then a train from there to Milano, then Milano to Monterosso, then Monterosso to Riomaggiore (both towns in the Cinque Terre).

We travelled with this girl Anne from Vancouver who's travelling alone and was heading to the Cinque Terre as well, so we all rode the train together, adn are going to hike together tomorrow.

All of the connections were fine, except in Milano where we had to run as hard as we could to catch our train and just just made it. Running with all of our stuff isn't fun to say the least. So we rolled into Monterosso (the furthest north of the five towns) adn then caught another train to the southern most town of the Cinque Terre, Riomaggiore. We weren't booked anywhere adn were abit nervous about finding a place, but the second we stepped off the train, this old Italian lady grabbed us and gave us a sheet in English saying basically 'Clean rooms, hot shower, free kitchen use - 15 Euro each', so we went with her the 50 feet from the station to her place, and after seeing it decided to stay there. We threw our bags in our rooms, me and Rob got a private double, and went up to the same place me and Faye had gone to watch the sunset. We had a couple bottles of vino between the 3 of us, and then we went through the tunnel to the other side of town and went to La Lampara for dinner. Meal was awesome and hilarious because its a family run place and Grandpa was there, helping a bit, but more just causing shit. He kept coming over to our table, winking and singing to Ane. Everyone at the restaurant was cracking up laughing.

After dinner we went for a walk down by the beach, and then shut're down early for the big walk tomorrow.