I was there 3 weeks ago and as John says parts of the coastal path are closed due to landslides, and the middle village -Corniglia - was inaccessible from land; we couldn' tget there in at all.
+1 for the gelatos at Manorola too... :-) You'll certainly have better weather than us - it was cold and wet when we were there... Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne (who could quite easily live in Levanto...) On 28 June 2013 16:54, John Coyle <jco...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > You may not be able to hike the coastal path at Cinque Terre. There have > been a couple of > landslides recently and parts of the coastal path were wiped out. However, > there is some great > scenery in some of the cliff-top areas, and you can also get down to the > villages from the top quite > easily. Let me recommend a gelato in Manarola, at the café on the > waterfront, left-hand side of the > street going down - my wife said it was the best! > > Have a good trip! > > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts > Sent: Friday, 28 June 2013 12:32 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: 50 gigabytes and an airline ticket > > Well, I've picked my kit and packed my gear for departure to Italy tomorrow. > Here's the kit: > Pentax K-5 > 12-14/4.0 > 16-50/2.8 > Vivitar 70-210 > Sony A-850 > 50mm f/1.7 > ...and a couple of filters, mini-tripod, batteries and, of course, the > aforementioned 50 gigs of > memory. > > Despite out best efforts it seems Dario and I won't be able to meet up during > this trip. It's very > frustrating to travel so far and get so close and yet be unable to meet one > of those PDMLers I've > always wanted to meet. Also, I won't be able to attend the World Superbike > Championship race taking > place at Imola – less than 100 miles away. > Doubly frustrating. So I'll try to make up for it by getting some good > photographs. > > We're doing a week of hiking around Cinque Terra and then a week of hiking in > the Dolomites. Should > be good, eh? I think we'll have Internet almost everywhere we go so I'll send > a few posts. > > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
