My long-overdue summary of my trip around Europe last summer and the long-lost video footage of the entire thing!

Our last stop as a group was Bergamo. We walked to the old town and explored our last narrow Italian streets. And some Italian treats.

One of the places I really wanted to visit in Northern Italy was Verona. I wanted to go and see the letters to Juliette, where women right to Juliette, of Romeo and Juliette, for love advice.

My favorite part of Italy (other than the coast) was the colorful buildings- and the colorful doors! They were all so different, and so gorgeous. And the mailboxes in Europe are so much better than ours.

We were running out of daylight. So instead of hiking to Manarola, we took the train from Corniglia. And since we'd spent most of our time hiking, we decided to explore this town more. It was a pretty wonderful adventure. And during our exploration, we found a trail of blood. Leading to a guy who had somehow lost his finger. Talk about excitement! After all of the climbing of stairs and hills we headed back to Riomaggiore for dinner.

Most of our time had been spent hiking so far. So our stop in Corniglia was pretty short. It took a million steps to get there. But we peeked around a bit. Then we went to our last town in the hike by train: Manarola.