Today we left the mountains and arrived at the sea. I rode on the back of a dusty blue Vespa to pick up creamy gelato for dinner - down cobbled Italian streets with yellow and orange buildings looming over us, past bronzed italiani going home from a day on the beach, zooming along in the salty air, the sun still beating down on us though it was already 6pm. We ate on the balcony looking over the endless ocean, and now the sun is setting and it is truly bellissimo.