I was E-flippin-lated when Jess told me that she would be joining us on the Cinque Terre portion of our Italian journey. Jess is my darling friend from Cape Town. She is the frosting on my cup cake. Poor thing, she didn't realize that Charlie and I have a knack for getting stuck. Or maybe she just didn't mind being stuck with us.


This is a shot of Jess and Charlie waiting for a boat that never came. That's right. We were sold tickets on July 9th for a boat that does not even start running until July 30th! Nice. We would have to wait there for three weeks if we wanted to use our tickets. You want to know the best part? The boat was our last option to get to Cinque Terre that day. There was no bus, no train, no taxi... and no boat. When I started suggesting that we look into chartering an airplane Jess decided it would be better to find a hotel for the night and try our luck the next day.