{"id":344,"date":"2002-09-22T09:43:45","date_gmt":"2002-09-22T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinqueterre.mrvisitor.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2002-09-22T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2002-09-22T17:43:45","slug":"cinque-terre-for-the-scenery-people-seafood-espresso-history-quiet-reader-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/blog\/cinque-terre-for-the-scenery-people-seafood-espresso-history-quiet-reader-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinque Terre &#8211; For the Scenery, People, Seafood, Espresso, History &#038; quiet | Reader Feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had an extraordinary visit in spring (read &#8220;before school was out&#8221;) in 2002. The people were quietly helpful; the scenery was beautiful, and the fabled hordes of American student tourists had not yet arrived (though one Australian was on the train with his surfboard.) <\/p>\n<p>We did not get a room in a hotel ahead of time and as a result got the best room of our entire European trip by going to a small real estate office in Manarola and speaking in French (the only common language) with the young employee there who set us up in an apartment with a fully equipped kitchen, bedroom, bath and balcony with a view. With this we were able to prepare inexpensive but wonderful dinners with local produce (and pesto; remember nearby Genoa is the home of pesto) thanks to the bountiful local market and we had perhaps the best time of our trip. <\/p>\n<p>But the real reason to go is the scenery, the people, the seafood, (the espresso), the history and the quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had an extraordinary visit in spring (read &#8220;before school was out&#8221;) in 2002. The people were quietly helpful; the scenery was beautiful, and the fabled hordes of American student tourists had not yet arrived (though one Australian was on the train with his surfboard.) We did not get a room in a hotel ahead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrvisitor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}