{"id":888,"date":"2009-09-22T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/?p=888"},"modified":"2009-09-22T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:17:00","slug":"la-spezia-and-manarola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/2009\/09\/la-spezia-and-manarola\/","title":{"rendered":"La Spezia and Manarola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the Cinque Terre (five lands) National Park in the town Manarola in Italy. It&#8217;s a beautiful warm day and I&#8217;ve been swimming in the Mediterranean sea. The water is amazingly warm and it must be very salty as I float high in the water. It&#8217;s amazing how free sunny warm weather can make you feel especially when you can cool off in the water.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/watermanarolaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Water (Manarola, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/watermanarolaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/viewoftown2manarolaitaly_resize_exposure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"View of town 2 (Manarola, Italy) resize exposure\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/viewoftown2manarolaitaly_resize_exposure-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above left: Swimming in the Mediterranean sea was really nice and much warmer than swimming in Norway earlier in my trip. Above right: View of Manarola looking back from the track that runs along the cliffs by the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Below left: The pastel colours of the houses in Manarola. Below right: A tree that I sat under.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pastelcoloursmanarolaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pastel colours (Manarola, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/pastelcoloursmanarolaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/treemanarolaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tree (Manarola, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/treemanarolaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lightmanarolaitaly_resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Light (Manarola, Italy) resize\" src=\"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/lightmanarolaitaly_resize-small.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: A light in the town.<\/p>\n<p>Manarola is one of five small coastal towns in the very small national park. The towns are Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore. A railway line runs between the towns and for the sum of 1.70 Euros I caught the train from La Spezia outside of the park to Manarola. Houses in pastel colours are perched on the cliffs. American tourists roam amongst the cafes. It&#8217;s the shoulder season now which is a good thing as I wouldn&#8217;t want anymore people than there already are.<\/p>\n<p>[Morcheeba &#8211; Enjoy the ride] [ATB &#8211; The Autumn Leaves]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the Cinque Terre (five lands) National Park in the town Manarola in Italy. It&#8217;s a beautiful warm day and I&#8217;ve been swimming in the Mediterranean sea. The water is amazingly warm and it must be very salty as I float high in the water. It&#8217;s amazing how free sunny warm weather can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cris.lovell-smith.com\/trips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}