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I think your website is terrific. It was truly helpful in arranging our visit to the Cinque Terre. We spent the last week in May there, and we had a really rewarding travel experience. I notice that a number of your e-correspondents who are negative about the Cinque Terre have had very brief stays. The…

I wonder if you could offer some advice about parking a car. We will be driving to C.T. What do you think the best strategy (safest and least expensive) for parking the vehicle while we visit? There is no easy answer for this. I think your best bet is to park above the villages. There…

Compliments on your site. It’s extremely hard to find non-commercial sites that give information on the Cinque Terre. I wanted to let you know that I’ve opened an Internet Café in Monterosso al Mare. Besides the internet service (£12000 an hour), we also offer an English book exchange (free), a travel reference library (free), and…

Reader Dan Wood wrote to tell us about Cinque Terre when the weather is bad: “If it has rained in the last couple of days, hiking may be hard. On our trip, the trails were officially closed, even though everybody went on them anyhow. The hike from Manarola to Corniglia just had a couple of…

I stayed at the Affittacamere Vesigna Edi at the end of May 2004 for five days (Thursday through Tuesday). We stayed in a one bedroom apartment (room 18) on the 2nd floor overlooking Bar Centrale on the main street of Riomaggiore for approx. 70 euro a day. The place was wonderfully spacious with a LARGE…

I have something to add about Riomaggiore: We stayed in Riomaggiore. We loved the rocky swimming there. We come from Boston, USA, so the warm, clean water was something new to us! We stayed in an apartment recommended in Rick Steve’s book: Michielini Anna. We dealt with her English-speaking daughter Daniela (she was very nice;…