Trips with the Twins (part 2)

Our main trip was a road trip through Italy. Our 'home base' was in a quaint village 15 minutes outside of La Spezia.

This is what the drive looked like between Switzerland and Italy

and another view of the bug and her uncles

On the way to our place we stopped in Genoa. This was the best gelato place

We at TONS of foccacia in Genoa

Basilica of Santa Maria di Castello

Cathedral di San Lorenzo Campanile

The village we stayed in. It was on the top of the mountain and had a great view.

Walking from our apartment to our car. It was such a cool place to stay.

Hanging out in the apartment we rented playing Bohnanza, Settlers and drinking blood-orange juice

Day trip to Cinque Terre National Park. We accidentally left the baby backpack carrier at home....so we solved the problem by going to SuperCoop and buying a cheap umbrella stroller. It was well worth the money to enjoy our trip (and we didn't have one anyhow)

Riding the train through Cinque Terre-The views from the train were great.

We started out trip in Monteroso and worked our way through the towns. 

Monteroso: we swam at the beach, walked around and ate gelato; Vernazza, we walked around a little and accidentally got soaked by some big waves crashing into the shore; Corniglia: opted not to do this as we had a stroller and no baby carrier. It's a couple hundred stairs just to reach the city; Manarola: spent a majority of time here and had a great dinner; Riomaggiore: we ran out of time but felt we had seen enough-missed this one.

Monteroso

June was a little scared by the crashing waves and refused to play in the water

Clint injured his toe in Manarola (it was pretty bad) so I got to play nurse.

Just before dinner in Manarola

We at at Trattoria dal Billy in Manarola (the 2nd of 5 towns). Definitely recommend that restaurant.

Manarola at night