RiomaggioreCinque Terre. The most relaxing weekend so far if you don’t count jumping off of 20 foot cliffs and hiking for 5 hours along the coast. Cinque Terre is a cluster of 5 towns on the Italian Rivera that are connected by a foot path called the Via dell’Amore. We stared off very early on Saturday morning, around 2 am, getting on a bus for a 5 hour ride to LaSpezia, where we were going to take the train into Riomaggiore, the town on the southern end of Cinque Terre. Now, we all had to sign an agreement beforehand that we would not eat or drink on the bus or, above all, show up drunk. If we did show up drunk, were told, we would not be allowed to board and we would not be refunded our money. Well sure enough, some kids just can’t go a night without hitting up the local bars. It wouldn’t have bothered everyone so much if the motion of the bus had not caused one of them to spew all over himself an hour and a half into the ride. (more…)