"What do you think, should we take the autostrada or the smaller roads(while leaving Florence to the Cinque Terra)?"... (me) "Let's take the back roads, that way we will see more sites"... I don't think I will ever say that again !!! We only had about 1 1/2 hours drive at most if we had taken the autostrada, but taking the "back roads, well it took us about 7 hours and a heck of a lot more fuel. Not only more time and fuel, it took just about every ounce of energy out of me. The roads were so slow because of the tremendous amount of towns and villages, and the slow traffic. I doubt of we actually got higher than 15 miles an hour average for the whole day. Then once we got to the last of the days driving, it turned out to be the most winding and twisting up and down roads we have experienced anywhere. I wasn't good company in the front seat of "Bumble Bee". Once we found our campground in Levanto and had a short breather, I settled down into the stream of things...it was a TOUGH day !!! Just prior to dinner we walked down into the village just to see where we are. Levanto is really quite a beautiful little town. We were delightfully surprised. I'll give you more on this later. It was time to head back and fire up the barbie...salmon tonight... Tomorrow...The Cinque Terra villages