Camogli 2

We arrived in the late afternoon, we have a few hours yet before it turns dark. So we didn't waste time but went to town and started clicking away with our cameras. Up and down and round and round, there are so many stairs. When we arrive, we almost mistook a certain address to be the address of our hotel. We started climbing up some very steep stairs when the village folks yelled at us, 'that's the wrong way'. We asked everyone, so everyone in town knew where we wanted to go, so when we went the wrong way, they said, 'no,no,no....' That was so nice. It is a very pretty village, so pretty, it's even more so now that I'm looking from a distance, now that I'm looking at the pictures. Sure is pretty. It's the off season and that makes it even more special, no crowds, just the locals.

I think we ate dinner here, by the time dinner time came, it was pretty dark already.

Steps going down, steps going up, steps, steps, steps, they are everywhere.

Some buildings were 7 to 8 stories high and painted with all shades of pastels.

There was a small beach, I was scoping out to see if there were any topless bathers. There were none, unlike in Nice where you do find topless bathers.

This is a gorgeous cove. I think I took this shot from the castle and church this side of the cove. We only spent one night here, we were out the door the next morning. I'd love to come back.

Need I say more......the Ligurian sea.....

Camogli is still a fishing village. When we were eating dinner, I saw a fisherman come into the restaurant with his catch. This shows how fresh the seafood is, it just came off the fisherman's boat.

God, how can you stay at home after seeing these pictures, go buy a plane ticket and head out the door, hurry......

The bay taken from above....we had just checked into our hotel, the locals gave us directions and told us to head up higher to get the best shots. They were really proud of their village. I took almost 1000 pictures this trip. Sophie took a little more than 1000!

I've never seen a sea glisten like this sea. The sun is almost going down, good thing we had a few hours of light left to take pictures.

I love the Cinque terre when we were there 2 and 1/2 years ago, this is an extension of the Cinque terre. If you ever have the chance, visit the Cinque terre and walk the whole 7 miles that link all 5 villages. We had a blast when we did that, 2 of the trails were pretty difficult, the rest was a cakewalk.

We wanted to buy our train tickets that evening but the train people had all gone. I started playing with the ticket dispensing machine, even in Italian, I was able to procure 2 tickets for our next day trip up the coast to Ventimiglia, the last Italian town before the French border. So it's onward, brave people.....