Riomaggiore summer looking through the curl as

looking through the curl as it pitches

Almost none of California's palms are native — the rows lining the Pacific coast were planted by Los Angeles in the early twentieth century

all left in

where the Meltemi wind arrives most summer afternoons and turns the lower stretch into a kite-surfing hub

Riomaggiore summer looking through the curl asRiomaggiore is the southernmost of the five Cinque Terre villages terracotta houses stacked up a steep ravine to the Ligurian coast, joined by a footpath above the sea. The villages have been there since around the 12th century; cars still can't reach the centers, only trains and boats. Bree shoots in the late light, the houses catching the last of it, the sea behind them already dark.