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Day 16: Hello Monterosso

Trip
Italy 2024
Location
Monterosso al Mare 🇮🇹
Date
September 8, 2024
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It sure seems like we’ve planed our travel days to align with rainy days. For the third time this trip, we’re in a train and it rains. We’re going back to Monterosso for the fifth time in six trips to Italy. That’s the destination we’ve visited the most in Europe and one of our favourite places to stop by.

We started our day at back at 📍LùBar for brunch. Its convenient location between the appartement we’ve been staying in and the train station, and the good food we had yesterday, made it an easy pick. having about four hours to kill before boarding our train we extended our breakfast as much as we could then made our way to the train station for a second coffee.

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Yesterday we received an email telling us that from 3:00 in the morning the day we’re departing Milano to 2:00 in the morning the following day, there were going to be strike actions from the local train union and there would be likely service disruptions. Milano Centrale being a hectic station at the best of times, we were braced for it to be even worse. Turns out either few people travel on a Sunday or everyone had received the memo and made other travel arrangements. The station was calm, the platforms were cleared and people whose train were cancelled made an orderly line at the kiosk to get rebooked.

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Our InterCity train was on time and made the 3-hour journey to Monterosso with barely any delays. We’re either very lucky or the strike actions were very limited. Either way, it was a smooth and easy journey. It got us on time to Monterosso, where we promptly checked-in to our home for the next two nights and went for Apéro at our favourite wine bar (📍Enoteca Internazionale) for their lemon spritz and diner at our favourite restaurant (📍Ristaurante CIAK) in town for their gnocchi al pesto made in the best Genovan tradition.

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Places

LùBar · Via Palestro, 16, 20121 Milano MI, Italy

★★★★☆ · Restaurant

LùBar · Via Palestro, 16, 20121 Milano MI, Italy
Enoteca Internazionale · Via Roma, 62, 19016 Monterosso al Mare SP, Italy

★★★★☆ · Wine bar

Enoteca Internazionale · Via Roma, 62, 19016 Monterosso al Mare SP, Italy
Ristorante Ciak · Piazza Don Giovanni Minzoni, 6, 19016 Monterosso al Mare SP, Italy

★★★★☆ · Restaurant

Ristorante Ciak · Piazza Don Giovanni Minzoni, 6, 19016 Monterosso al Mare SP, Italy