Red Mullet with Pesto (Pink Floyd)

We arrived in Vernazza in the Cinque Terre, Liguria, just before sunset. It is a tiny fishing village, very popular with tourists, no doubt because of its stunning beauty. There are brightly painted houses round the edge of the little harbour and dozens of fishing boats bobbing on their moorings. Or rather there should have been. Instead they were berthed high and dry because the weather in late October was too rough for small open boat fishing. This was a bit of a disaster because we had b