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Cinque Terre and Livorno

November 19, 2009 on 2:05 pm | In Cruises, Italy, travel | No Comments

Going to catch up on two days today.  Yesterday we were in Cinque Terre.  I stayed on the ship but most of the group went off on their own and did the 5 towns of Cinque Terre by train and walking.  All said it was a beautiful area and they really had a great time walking between the villages and stopping at them as they progressed through the area. 

Today we were in Livorno and Joe and I did a tour of Lucca and the wine tasting at a boutique winery.  This small winery has about 16 hectares of grapes that they grow and produce wine form.  They only produce wine from their own grapes.  They also have 4 hectares of olive trees and produce EVOO cold pressed olive oil.  Unfortunately they do not ship wine to the US so we could not buy any but I did buy some EVOO.  This was an excellent tour put on by the cruise ship and we really enjoyed it.  Much of the other group went to Florence and really enjoyed it.  John and Char did the Discovery walk tour and said it was excellent.  Several of the other members of the group acquired new leather articles.  Florence is definitely the place to buy leather and gold.