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Cinque Terre and Riomaggiore: The Italian coast shines in summer

Italy's a special place, but you already know this. Enjoy the food, look at the women, and don't complain about anything.
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Pastel colours and drying laundry line the rows of houses along coastline of Riomaggiore

Italy's a special place, but you already know this.

It's practically its own continent, which you'll learn if you travel anywhere else. There are Europeans – and they even include the English – and then there are Italians. The men wear underwear instead of board shorts and their's as slicked as a cow's tongue.

The woman are beautiful by osmosis. Their people know how to look like they'll be in a photograph 50 years from now – even the ones who aren't really from there.

It's

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