#my7yearoldbrother picked me up.

@MaryDanielsen As do I! Look:

@MaryDanielsen As do I! Look:

For dessert, tiny little fragole di bosco with lemon and sugar. Strawberries picked in the forest.

Pastas! Tagatelle with olive oil and local porcini; Testaroli with pesto Genovese, served only in Lunigiana region

Celerona fritta, a celery and onion fritter; marrone flour, fried & served with sweetened ricotta

Celerona fritta, a celery and onion fritter; marrone flour, fried & served with sweetened ricotta

Then, “verdure”, meaning “grass” and tasting of leeks, rice, onions and cheese; “rossocippoli”, a rice and onion tart

Start with capicollo, salumi, panne rustica

@mikeyil Oh here’s your buddy again

@mikeyil For you my love. Making a Cats of Cinque Terre coffee table book for our house?

@mikeyil For you my love. Making a Cats of Cinque Terre coffee table book for our house?

After: making peace with my biggest fear, the octopus. It’s not so emotionally scarring when it’s grilled.

Stopped in each town and even went swimming in a grotto. Why did it take so long? Whole trail like this or steeper:

Change of plans. Hiked through Parco Nazionale Cinque Terre, 5 little mountaintop cities. Very challenging, took 5 hrs

Panna cotta with burnt caramel. Ahh.

@mikeyil Also for you:

@titlecharacter Though some are more amusing than others

@titlecharacter It’s so beautiful along this pathway, covered in lovers’ graffiti. Like this!

Via Del Amore in Riomaggiore, where hopefuls go to declare their love with a locket closed on the fence for enternity: