2 nights was enough of Bologna for us. Our next destination was Cinque Terre and we initially thought it would be cool to rent a car and stop by Modena and Parma on the way. We were looking into parmesan cheese factory tours outside Parma and realized that most everything was closed on the Thursday we would be driving. Turns out it’s an Italian holiday (Liberation Day) which explains why it was especially challenging to find accommodations. Anyway, we decided to go the other direction and stopped for lunch in Lucca which was a cool place to explore for a couple of hours. Eventually we made it to the coast (staying in Monterosso al Mare) where we met up with Grandma Penny for a drink who was already here at the tail end of her travels with Julie. Glad to be here, but wish we had taken the train!
2 more days in Italy and then on to France.
The trip so far:
