Yummmm

I am guessing Matt will describe the amazing landscape of Cinque Terre and what we have been up to, so I will give a run-down on the really important stuff...the food!

Cinque Terre is full of tiny cliff-side towns, with the mountain sides covered in olive trees and grape vineyards. Needless to say, local wine and delicious olive oil is plentiful, along with foods containing these things! There are "foccacerias" everywhere selling large pieces of foccacia stuffed with all sorts of things (olives, carmelized onions, pesto, tomatoes, parm, etc.) Pesto is made with the local olive oil and is sold as scoops out of big vasts in all the local markets. There are beautiful lemon trees in everyones yard (along with their own personal gardens growing lettuce and basil) and lemon granitas (slushies) are delicious! Finally, the seafood is amazing! Tonight we had seafood spaghetti- full of mussels, clams, and squid!

Internet here is kinda expensive, but we think we have free use of it in Interlaken, so hopefully we will get pictures posted there! (Matt thinks its kinda ridiculous, but I have taken almost as many pictures of the food we eat as the scenery!)