I thought I was too old for poison ivy!

Well apparently I am not! After my friend and I hiked for about an hour in a traffic jam of tourists on the 'most difficult' trail in Cinque Terre, we headed uphill. We ended up taking a trail that took us all the way up the hills until the whole forest's foliage changed completely. It was a great hike! I bored him to tears with a recount of my evolution book but he took it in stride, literally, but not fast enough!

Cinque Terre consists of five small fishing villages on the north western coast of Italy, about 20 minutes north of La Spezia. I highly recommend it and I even more highly recommend taking the paths less traveled. One word of warning, when the conversation starts to sound like this put on protective clothing:
-- "hey this one sort of looks like poison ivy, see the three leaves? Two with wings?"
--- "oh yeah I sure do, great...."
-- "oh wait no, this over here looks wayyy more like poison ivy than that other stuff."

We stayed in the first town, called Riomaggiore:





Photos from the hike!











This guy was huge!


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Location:Cinque Terre