Well, if that just wasn’t the cherry on the top of a year’s worth of ice-cream sundae trips around Europe.

It was a lot of traveling as we flew into Milan, actually Bergamo about 80km outside of Milan, and then took a train to the coast. Definitely worth it. Cinque Terre was the most beautiful (and colorful) place I have ever seen.

We ate all the focaccia bread pizza, gelato, and pasta we could in between our visit to sandy beaches and nude beaches. We picked out ideal Italian husbands (which were not found at the nude beaches…) and we settled on ideal family businesses to run in the coastal towns of Cinque Terre. We did a six hour hike through the towns and a 1.5 hour kayak in the Mediterranean.

And, when it was all said and done, I wondered why I would leave a place as wonderful as this for South Korea…

I’ll be back with more…