At the end of our tour of the Cinque Terre the boat took us to the town of Porto Venere. This is a lovely little town close to Cinque Terre.
We had some time to take a look around here and I enjoyed walking in this cosy town. We did not have the time to go up to the old church that is at the top of a hill, but must say the people living in towns like these must get really fit, because they mostly consists of hills.
After we had a little look around we went to a little restaurant and had a wine tasting. The wines we tasted was white wines from the area and from Cinque Terre. The one from Cinque Terre you could taste a little salt, coming from growing the grapes in the steep hills so close to the sea. We were also served the local olives, and Farinata a savoury pancake made with chickpea flour
You had a heavenly boat trip, it seems. Your photos are beautiful as always. 🙂
Thank you very much, I really did have a great boat trip and there was so many lovely things to see!
Chic pea flour sounds interesting as well as wine with a hint of salt. Can you imagine building that church on that rock?? 🙂 Very interesting.
It was quite tasty! I’m very glad i was not the one who had to build the church
Charming & interesting. I want to try the chickpea flour.
The Farinata was very tasty.
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Yay! Happy tourist picture is the best! You are so cute 🙂
Thank you what a nice thing to say.
What a marvelous boat ride! With the salty flavor did the wine taste good? I always enjoy your photos.
Thank you! The wine was quite nice, it was only a little hint of salt. Perfect for drinking in the heat.
Looks amazing shame you didn’t visit that church it looks very impressive.
Yes it does, but there is never enough time to do everything 😦
Nice to meet the “happy tourist” behind this beautiful blog, Madam.. 😊
The Castle of Porto Venre looks beautiful and mysterious at the same time. Hope to visit it when tourists aren’t there. Cinque Terre is quite prone to crowds.
Thank you. It is quite, we vere quite lucky there is not many people, but I have heard of others that had trouble with a lot of people.
I see. So when did you visit Porto Venere? During July?
Yes, I was in Italy July 2015.
Great.. 😊