Back136_3610.JPG We are all together and we’re looking down into the water in Nervi Harbor. This is right behind our apartment. Nervi is the Eastern end of Genoa.
135_3572.AVI (Big movie file, might take a long time to load, don't try it over the phone lines!) People were kayaking, riding these big waves in Nervi harbor. It looked really hard. They were wet.
136_3611.JPG We are in the aquarium of Genoa, one of the best aquariums of Europe. This is a real shark’s jaw and it smelled funny. He didn’t brush his teeth!
136_3621.JPG This tortoise was SOOO big and he glided by and surprised us as we were looking at other fish in the tank. My little sister said, "It’s Crush”! (from "Finding Nemo”.)
136_3622.JPG Can you find Nemo, Dori, Marlin, Coral, and Bubbles?
136_3624.JPG Marlin hiding in the sea anemone.
136_3626.JPG Gill.
136_3640.JPG This is the village of Nervi, in Genoa, seen from the walkway that goes for a couple of miles along the sea. I am living in an apartment there.
136_3641.JPG I am sitting on an invisible bench on a walkway that goes along the Mediterranean sea from near our apartment.
136_3650.JPG There was a sharp drop-off so there was always a fence keeping people from falling off!
136_3653.JPG Italian ice cream is called "gelato". I was finally able to eat chocolate ice cream because we were sure it had no eggs. Unlike in America, the people who served it were usually the people who made it, so they could tell us exactly what was in it, if we could understand Italian!
136_3657.JPG We are at the beginning of the walkway. I'm standing on part of the fence. You can see the white gate to our driveway, just on the other side of the railroad bridge, just above my little sister's head in this picture.
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(Big movie file, might take a
long
time to load, don't try it over the phone lines!) Listen to my
explanation.
132_3228.JPG I'm on the train to Cinque Terre. Cinque Terre means Five Lands. These are five towns along the coast where the land is so steep that you can't get there by driving!
136_3663.JPG My big sister and I are figuring out where we are on the map.
132_3232.JPG I took this picture myself! My big sister told me when I was aiming it right.
132_3235.JPG Looking down to the sea from high up in the town of Riomaggiore, the farthest of the towns of the Cinque Terre.
136_3675.JPG We are starting on a long walk along the Via dell'Amore, or "Love Street", a 1-kilometer walkway between the two farthest towns in the Cinque Terre, Riomaggiore and Manarola. We walked the whole thing, even my 4-year-old little sister!
132_3238.JPG A pretty view of the Sea from the Via dell'Amore
132_3239.JPG We are looking down at the edge of the Mediterranean Sea from the Via dell'Amore in the Cinque Terre. These are definitely sedimentary rocks because you can see all the layers. My Dad tells me that they are standing on their edge now because, over thousands and thousands of years, parts of the earth's surface slide over other parts, and the rocks get shifted and crumpled. Mountains like the Alps, just North of us, get made this way.
136_3681.JPG I am standing in front of a cactus and flowers on the Via dell'Amore.
132_3251.JPG On the edge of the town of Manarola is a rock that reminded us of a pig's head!
136_3673.JPG There was a tunnel between the train station and the main street of Riomaggiore and the sides were decorated with art work made of tile, marble, stone, and sea shells. Above my little sister's head here is a sea gull made of marble. I think marble is a metamorphic rock. That means the heat and pressure deep inside the earth changed it.
136_3679.JPG We're on the Via dell'Amore leaning against one of the steepest mountains I've ever seen.
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We walked to the town of Manarola and we searched all over for
gelato,
but couldn't find any. So we had to settle
for
fruit smoothies and skittles.