Beautiful Day in Cinque Terre

We got into the town of Manarola, the second of the five villages of Cinque Terre, after changing trains from the fast train from Milan to the local train that stops at all of the villages. These five villages are small seaside fishing and farming communities with small boats going out to fish the local waters and vineyards and orchards terraced up the hillsides. Each has a road that reaches a parking lot some distance above town, but no cars get down into the villages. While historically the residents survived on fishing and agriculture, tourism is now the main business and the whole area has been made a national park to preserve it as it is. We reserved rooms in a 12 room hotel that Patty and I had stayed at before right on the harbor in Manarola.