Easter Road Trip - Day 3

Cinque Terre is well-known for a number of things including pesto, white wine and and seafood so I knew that I would be in store for some good eats. I didn't know that focaccia bread was a specialty until Meganne told me that she had some delicious focaccia at a place in Vernazza a number of years prior. We woke up early Saturday to explore a few of the other towns of Cinque Terra and to find the place that she ate at before. There were no let-downs in the scenery or the bread.
The three towns we visited all look like postcards, what more can I say? A little bit hard on the outside, soft on the inside, warm and nicely salted, the foccaccia not the town.
We left Cinque Terre Saturday afternoon after a steep climb up to the town of Corniglia for a quick lunch and an amazing view of the sea. North to Piemonte! Piedmont is famous for the richness of its cuisine, most importantly truffles (expensive and out of season), chocolate and wine. I prefer the latter two to the former so the season was just right for me. The whole point of this Easter trip, asides from seeing more of the country with a beautiful woman was to gorge myself on high quality food and wine, as my favorite TV chef so succinctly stated, "Wretched excess is barely enough!"

We stayed in the town of Asti (Asti Spumante, anyone?) because it's a central point in the region so we could make a few little excursions to other towns nearby with ease, the bubbly was mere gravy. We stayed in Asti proper Saturday night and had a nice dinner in a place recommended by the very kind owner of the hotel. The food was good but we ended our meal on a deliciously sweet glass of Spumanti d'Asti!