Tuesday, October 11, 2011

si, she sees the sea.

Is Cinque Terre a real place? I mean... when I look back on my days spent swimming and skipping through those Italian villages, I think of how those moments felt like being in some altered state which seemed separate from reality. A place where the pale blue sky melted into the bright blue sea.

Cinque Terre is composed of 5 villages (hence "Cinque") that lace salt water. Along with my fellow exchange friends, I got to: jump off big rocks, eat swordfish, hike through the mountains (to get from Monterosso to Vernazza), sleep in an unnerving monastery, visit a lemon orchard, look at zebra churches, collect a pocketful of sea glass, ingest large quantities of salt and ingest even larger qualities of gelato. 

hiking shoes on the beach is a no go

watery salutations

a view on a saturday

let the rock jumping commence!

lucy in the sea with diamonds

pro hikers


my australian girl


i wonder if they leave their vibrant clothes on the hanger, like such, just so people like me can capture a marvellous photo

vernazza

united states, canada, australia, south africa


azzurro

worldly travels with worldly friends

water colours in the sky

a bit of lecco

zebrafied 

with fancy chandeliers 

always waltz through italian streets

tiny passages

the giant

i have mixed feeling about swordfish... and seafood in general