VAN LIFE CONTINUES IN CINQUE TERRE: Exploring Italy’s Hidden Gems

Van Life Continues In Cinque Terre: Exploring Italy’s Hidden Gems

Snow and Curt travel slow, but even they slow down a bit more in certain places to really let it all sink in. This full time travel couple seeks out hidden gems during their van life travel. Cinque Terre may not be a secret hidden gem, but most be people rush thru this place in a day or maybe two. Snow and Curt decided to take thier time and really dive deep into each of the five towns. In their last video, they visited two of the five towns and in this video they tour through Corniglio and Vernazza! Come along for the journey!

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00:00 Introduction
02:28 Corniglia
14:39 Cinque Terre Campsite
16:47 Vernazza

If you remember in the last video we  covered two of the villages in jinko   Terra the northernmost and the southernmost  but we are still in the southernmost because   it’s time to grab some food so I am in Italy  I must have some pizza what’d you get Kurt  

I got some seafood and that’s what’s really  cool about this place there’s something for   both of us snow does not like seafood they  have fried fish here and pizza what an odd   combination but it’s perfect for us so we’re  going to then we’ll be hopping on the train  

And taking you to the third town here in ch we  have three more towns to go guys it should be exciting guys I had a little Seafood  in here it looks like it’s a little   calamari I see eyes a little shrimp  a little fish and some kind of crow  

Cats and it looks like the famous lemon  and then french fries so fried fish for kurk tastes like fish so I don’t think this is actually  Pizza I think it’s that fagio stuff it’s   like a bread and some of them have  topping and some of them don’t but  

Mine’s vegetarian I’ve got some greens  looks like some mozzarella some little   tomatoes and he drizzled some balsamic  on there for me it’s really really good now we are headed to the train where we  are going to go to the middl town that sits up  

On a hill it’s the only one of the five towns that  doesn’t actually go down and touch the coastline   but it’s supposed to be beautiful and I think  we take a train and then from there we’ll take  

A bus up to the top of the hill it’s definitely  more crowded than it was this morning standing   room only but we only have like 5 minutes we’re  going to skip the next town and we get out on the  

Second stop so it’s not too bad we’re going to the  hill in the middle welcome to corniglia so we got   off the train and then at this town you have two  options you can walk up the hill to the top which  

Most people do but it would take me a really long  time and just slap wear me out so we are going to   take the second option which is they have a bus  that runs back and forth from the train station  

Up to the top of the hill where the center of town  is and we are going to take that bus up top to   save me the wear and tear on my heart and make me  last a little bit longer today um now we bought a  

One-day train pass and that comes with being able  to ride the trains all through [ __ ] ter it it   will cover the cost of this bus ride to the top  and it also allows us to use the public restrooms  

For free in the train stations um if it was season  and the hiking drills between towns were open our   one-day pass would also cover those but that’s  where we’re at so we’ve already paid for it we  

Might as well wait a few minutes and take the bus  to the top what is it Cornelia corelia Cornelia   all right Coria we made it to the top of the hill  and well so far I see a village on a hill but if  

You look right in front of it you see all the old  stone walls and the old wooden doors and right up   here on Hill I think is a church and of course we  have the beautiful sea views so be interesting to  

See what the uniqueness is about this city let’s  do it I’ll never forget in medine Colombia when   they had homes like this built on the Hills  they called them generational homes and what   would happen is The Family the original people  who built the house on the hill would build their  

Family a house on the first floor maybe the  second floor and then when the the children   were old enough to have a family they would get  the air there so the air was the floor above so  

The third floor they would inherit that and they  would build their home on the third floor and so   sometimes you’d have three generations like in  a three or four story home built up on the hill  

And of course they’re all pressed up against each  other and then the homes like this that push up   the mountains in Rio diero are called favellas  and of course they have the narrow sidewalks   and all that type of stuff but all of them are  just colorful and stunning in their own unique  

Way but wow we have seen houses pushed up on the  hill like this all over the world haven’t we snow   and the way they’re able to construct these is  amazing and the cool thing about these areas is  

Some of the structure for these has been here for  centuries now I’m sure they’ve been remodeled and   everything but the basic structure of the roads  and the foundations really old and incredible   but here since we’ve been in Italy we’ve noticed  all the different stones and stonework and you  

Can see the plaza of this church is stones and  then again like the last church we saw almost   like a Sandstone or a slate brick a big marble  window facade a little humble statue and a big  

Wooden door let’s go in and check this thing out  look at how ornate this is and again you can see   it’s characteristic of the churches in this  area with the black and white stripes and the   white marble and the black stone and also I’m  not sure if the Red Stone Polish there making  

The columns is um like a marble or what kind  of stone it is but there’s intricate work all   over the walls and even on this the ceiling  paintings are just elaborate and beautiful   and then right up here in front there’s a  big statue of Jesus Christ hanging on the

Cross wow what a grand church and  again these churches in this region   are definitely more humble on the outside  than some of the ones we saw up in France   so far but on the inside and this with  the paintings on the ceiling is just wow

And just look at the mix of building  materials on this wall it’s such a p   Patchwork you can see big giant Stones you  can see bricks in some cases you can see   sort of square blocks and there’s a lot  of archways and windows and tunnels and  

Stairwells and just narrow paths through all  these buildings these tall skinny buildings   and what’s cool is they also have these  little water stations throughout so you   can get you some fresh potable water but look  at this as we move through towards the Town Center incredible huh

Guys and we’ve arrived at the city center there’s  a big statue of corniglia and then there’s also   another church so both these towns most of these  towns we’ve been have at least even though they’re  

Pretty small village I at least a couple churches  go up and see if we can get that one I don’t see   the door open it looks like there’s also a view  of the ocean in the back from here you can see  

Where corneglio doesn’t have sea access there’s  a sea cliff here and I’m going to tell you we’re   a good couple hundred feet above the water up  here where the hill is the Hill Village is you   can see the other Village built out there on  the edge of the the mountains all colorful just  

Stacked houses poking out there on the island and  then otherwise it’s just a steep Cliff face along   here and when I say the train goes through a lot  of tunnels the tunnels go through right through  

Those those mountains on the side of the cliff and  then as we look up towards the sky again you can   see The Vineyards and the steaks for the for the  for the grapes and for the olive trees and for all  

The other crops they grow here and what I begin  to notice in addition to the Citrus there’s also   quite a lot of palm trees in this area meaning  we’re getting definitely into a more moderate   climate across the way you can see the steeple for  that ornate church we were in with the beautiful  

Ceiling pictures and then here’s a little church  right here and the square if you can see snows   down there with the little white cat on the Park  Bench guys I think I made a friend what are you doing

Yes what’d you get snow I got the basil  and lemon right there cuz what are you   going to get I want to I want to get the  corneglio yeah okay you want the same size yeah so it has the texture of sherbet and  it’s definitely got lemon in in a very  

Strong basil flavor which I absolutely love  I definitely picked the right one and I got   like the Cornelio Cornelio special  yeah so let’s get and it’s like a   mixture of cream and all sorts of local  ingredients I’m not sure what they are

It’s definitely got some vanilla in it and it is  tasty so as I get in here I’m starting to see the   hidden ingredients there’s like cherries in here  like dried cherries there’s also sort some sort  

Of nuts maybe like pine nuts or something like  that and I can also taste a little wine and I   saw that on the thing local wine so there’s  all sorts of little surprise treats in there

Good so it’s almost time to leave this little  town catch the bus back down to the train and   then the train will take us to our house so I  am on the bus about to take my ride down Kurt  

Decided to walk down so we’ll see what he sees  along the way we will catch back up with him at   the train to go home all right snow’s going  to wait to take the bus on down I’m going  

To walk on down uh just to get one last glimp  glimpse of this beautiful little area we’re at   right here I think she’s got about a 20 minute  wait so I’ll probably be down there waiting on  

Her anyway but right here you can see the train  track and then it disappears in that tunnel and   really doesn’t show up until that other town  over there out there on the island so that’s  

Where we got to go down to that train station  and you can see I’ve been talking about all the   different plants that they grow right here  these trees right in front of us are olive   trees all right I made it down here it was about a  10-minute walk just beautiful temperature outside  

Probably in the upper 60s Fen can hear a train  coming it’s headed the other direction that’s   not our train and how’s this for timing there’s  the bus you can see everybody’s jammed in there   like it’s a big Sardine Can but actually snow  did beat me back by about 20 seconds I’m going  

To keep walking and let’s see when she gets off  the bus if she actually beats me she’s probably   sitting down so I’m sure she’s going to have to  wait for everybody else to get off so perfect

Timing and voila there she is perfect timing  I just got here all right last train ride of   the day is over we are back in the town where  we are parked we are about 100 yards or 100   met from our little tiny house on Wheels  which is one of the amazing things about  

Traveling with a van it’s usually pretty close  to you but we’ve got to get over there and get   the door opened and I’m sure G money thinks  he’s starving to death so we got to go feed  

Them so let’s go see the kitty cats all right  what do you guys think the kitties are doing   they just heard the door unlocked there’s  Vanna what are you doing pumpkin where’s G huh you going to get out of my way no okay so  our campsite here at the northernmost town of  

The five towns of [ __ ] ter has turned out to be  amazing but what you need to know is it’s pretty   expensive and it’s only available during the off  seon uh when this place starts to get crowded they  

Put a bar up that doesn’t allow tall vehicles  to get into this parking lot there’s really no   Services they say there’s a bathroom but I think  that’s even closed during the off seon but that   doesn’t mean people don’t use it look at all  these Vans behind us because it’s perfectly  

Located about a f minute walk from the train  station that’ll get us anywhere here plus when   you look out your window you see the beautiful  ocean now we have already seen three of the five  

Towns today we hope to take you to the last two  the first one we’re going to is vernazza and uh   it’s supposed to be just as beautiful if the as  the others so we’re going to go get on the train  

And head that way oh this campsite $25 a day  with no Services you are paying for location   location location for for sure it’s worth it cuz  this was a bucket liser and I sure am enjoying  

Getting to show y’all this place because it is  incredible so let’s go have our last day in [ __ ] ter good morning Kitty good morning all right we made it to our next city  which is vernazza and this is kind of the Second  

City from the north just north or just south  of monosa and let’s go check it out it’s narrow   streets with tall bu colorful buildings so this  should be exciting let’s go see what we can find  

In this city so from the little bit of research  that I did on each City before we went to them   this city is kind of known for of course being  beautiful but you get off the train at the station  

And it’s at the top of the hill and then there is  one main road that runs all the way down the hill   to the coast I guess it’s like their main street  it’s not what they call it but so our first order  

Of business here we’ll be walking all the way down  to the water and checking that out and then as we   go back up we may explore some more of these side  streets but first things first let’s go hear some

Waves let’s run away to Italy and by a house  next to the Sea till years go by till years go by El while I talk to God about the Stars  your eyes how your lips curve just like   the sun rise so I ask you hard can  you be mine to help this hopeless

Roman way over there in the distance at  the bottom of that mountain is the town   we’re camped in mon Roo so was only a 3 minute  train ride most of it in a tunnel through that

Mountain this is as close as we’ve got to these  cool rocks so while we at the train station we   met the sweetest coolest little Italiano man  and he had some stories he grew up up along  

This Coastline in Ina and he lives here now  and he told us a lot of stories but the town   we stay is is is montos montoso mon Roo mon  Roo in any event that it stands for I think  

Red Mountain or red stone and so if you kind  of look up in these mountains there’s traces   of iron which give them their color red so when  the Romans came here they named it montosa for  

The red color of the stone so we found that to  be very fascinating very cool we’ve seen a lot   of the red residue on some of the buildings and  stuff around here as well so this is the Church  

Of Santa Margarita de antia and Legend has it that  now from what we’re learning as we research this   history when someone is a saint bits in pieces  of their body are you know they people want to  

Keep them close so Legend has it that a long long  time ago a finger of Santa Margarita washed up in   a small wooden box on this Shore now the locals  found it and they went several kilometers away  

And wanted to build a church in her honor a big  storm came and destroyed that church sometime   later the finger showed up in the same box in the  exact same location so the locals took that as a  

Definite sign from above and built the church in  her honor right here on the shore now the first   time there’s any written record of it is 1318 no  one knows exactly when they built it there’s no   historical data on that but between 1500 and  1600 it was renovated to add some bells and  

Make it larger and when they did that they kind  of destroyed the medieval feel and and put a a   new spin on it then again in the 1700s they did  some more renovation on it where they removed the  

Wood beams that were in the ceiling and made  it a little more modern but if you believe   the legend of this church it’s got some pretty  cool history so there’s a stone walkway around   the church that kind of walks along this little  Bay and you can see the the seaw walls that have  

Been built and the rocks that are just scattered  throughout and even the Cobblestone path just kind   of Meander over it but you can just see the  years the history on these walls and on these buildings so while Kurt took that little Coastal walk  right there I sat here on the Park Bench  

Pulled up our brand new app which is how  you buy train tickets here in Italy so we   are learning quickly the rules and how you do  this public transportation so it is 10:20 now   Kurt there’s a train right now clearly we can’t  make it but there’s a train at 11:25 to the next  

Town I think that’s the one we should get right  all right so the trusty app look at us public transportation all right some of these  little towns are am Maze and I messed   up and started the day with a low battery on  my phone so the map for the city we’re up to  

Snow to navigate but look at these  beautiful narrow sidewalks through here woo that’s a big walk Castillo Doria so we didn’t think we were  going to be able to get here cuz   it looked like it was closed from down  bottom but we made it that was a lot  

Of stairs for me but I made it to  the top and look at this view it’s beautiful all right right up here on this fort  that sits overlooking the city you can see the   church and the railway down there and all The  Terraces there’s a tower and it looks like we can  

Go in and it’s got a spiral St staircase now we  did a lot of stairs on the way up here so Snow’s   getting take a break from this but this is a one  only one way at a time type place we’re going up woo that taller than I would have thought

What goes up must come down let’s go down  we go we’re winding down our time here we   have now finished touring four of the  five towns one last one more we’re at   the train station our next town is Manola  whether we’re saying that right or not I  

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