Day one of the area is now up on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/81692166@N05/sets/72157645364177188/
Firstly we needed to find somewhere with internet. We had a wander through where the market, which was recommended to us, should have been, only to find it was closed. We then headed back to the main route and spotted a sign towards McDonalds. It turned out to be a fairly long way down on the main drag along the waterfront.
After signing up to Italy's McDonalds WiFi system, I used the internet for a couple of hours while dad walked back to the supermarke and then back to the apartment. I power-walked back along the waterfront and waited for dad a little while at the apartment, before we packed up and headed out again to Portovenere. It's in a straight line along the coast from La Spezia, and has some really nice scenery.
We drove around for a while looking for a place to park, which wasn't easy because it was fairly packed. Not that you would know it from looking around - there were certainly a few people there but nothing like the volume of people I expected for so little parking.
We then set off from where we parked all the way to Chiesa di San Pietro, which is a spectacular church set right into the cliff face at 'Land's End'. As we arrived the church had just been vacated after a wedding, so we were able to go inside and have a look. It was quite a simple-looking church, so we continued to explore the area and take more fabulous photos of the cliffs, including from the castle just next to the church:
Views of the cliffs of Portovenere
After dad left to go back to the car, I hurried back along the waterfront of Portovenere. It's also quite nice, and it was during the 'golden hour' as I walked back, with really good lighting on the water:
Portovenere's waterfront
After I got back to the car we turned around and headed back home again. Tomorrow will be our first day in Cinque Terre!
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