A Couple of Rough Nights (Jan 29)

We had both been exhausted from the hike the day before, and were sleeping in a room in which we could see our breath, AND were both not feeling totally healthy. So, we didn't sleep too well.

We woke up and had some time to spend in Riomaggiore. We walked all through the town, and down to the water for the last time. Another beautiful day!

Then we cought the train to La Spezia and found a laundromat! This was the first time our clothes had seen a drier since the US! Our undies fit again!! It's amazing how differently clothes fit after being line dried!! We found a corner store and bought some snacks for the night train we were about to take...Focaccia bread, fresh raisins still on the vine (huge! See photo), bananas & apples, yogurt, and fruit cookies. Yum!

We could not take a night train from the Cinque Terre area to Venice because the distance was not long enough. So, instead we went to Savona, which is the opposite direction (west) of Venice. There we waited for 3 hours until midnight to get on our night train. Savona was deserted! There were literally no other people there. It was really cold, and we wandered a while before we found a waiting room where we had to turn on the heat. There were only dirty squatty potties, which is really hard for a gal to do when she's wearing jeans, a long scarf, a long wool coat, and a money belt! But we settled in for the wait. We boarded the train at midnight, found our room, caused a small commotion getting into our top bunks, then finally fell asleep. We arrived in Venice at 7:30 the next morning.