Beach Party

Anyway, the 4 of us hired a boat & headed north & south along the Cinque Terre (The Five Terraces). It gave us a good vista of the villages perched on cliff edges, the terraced gardens, the walkway that winds through, connecting the villages – all very pretty. Got to the northern-most bay of our distance allowance, anchored up & speculated on why the nearby Lido had people crowded onto it with their deckchairs, umbrellas, etc. & here we were with a deserted lido of our own, only one person sunbathing on some nearby rocks. While Jenn & I translated the sign that warned of trespassing from the sea onto the nearby restaurant land, & wondering if that big pipe over there meant we were in an effluent discharging area, the boys had stripped naked & were in the water. Apparently it was refreshing & felt great, & it certainly looked clear & clean, & we are on the ‘clean’ side of the Italian peninsula, so it was probably our good fortune that yet again we found ourselves in a lovely part of the country & didn’t have to share it with lots of people.