Vernazza and the ocean by Henry

The Sea at last. Sand and rocks so we are all happy!

Henry's swimmer

Vernazza is a little village in Cinque Terre on the West coast of Italy and was originally a fishing village with access only by the sea. Today lots of tourists go there and it is easy to see why. The bells ring through the village so you don't need your watches. You do need your togs though.

Henry's Vernazza

Vernazza of the post cards, a seagull eye view...

But look at this shot of a storm in winter, they pull the boats up into the piazza or square and the restaurants on the beach front will need drying out and redecorating. The sea wall we dived from has gone under the waves!

Vernazza was nice.The sea was lovely, very warm and clear. Hundreds of tourists go there every year so I set up and decided might try to sell painted postcards

Henry painted post cards and sold some, he made 22 euro which is $44 in NZ!

George went fishing! You could see lots of fish.

Here is a crab! Adam's and my one.

I met a boy from America called Adam, we went crabbing. On the last night it was Henry and Adam's birthday the next day so we had a cracker on a sand castle. Max got on really well with Adam and went crab hunting with him for ages! He has missed his friends. -ed

The water was deep of the sea wall and it was great swimming

It was so warm and clear with fish

Swimming all the time, and all getting better at it too

This one was for sale, up the hills there were lots of gardens and grape vines on terraces.

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We even hired a boat with an outboard for two hours and looked at the other villages of Cinque Terre from the water. the photo is at the top. Everyone had a great time!