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Portofino Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Portofino, Italy
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Diving & Drinking in Portofino
... for a few hours. Stee likes to see In the evening a few of our guests went to look at Santa Margherite, a small village down the coast, but I just hung around Portofino and later after dinner aboard, we all found a place for drinks along the ...
Picture perfect Portofino!
Slept in today.. went to the farmers market.. and took off to Portofino! This is the Monte Carlo of Italy! On the way we stopped in San Margherita.. another small beautiful little town by the sea. Portofino is incredible....!!! Its such a beautiful ...
Week One - beautiful Italy
... , we managed to get a waterside table at a wonderful restaurant in what has to be the prettiest port in the world - Portofino. Blissful is the only word - simply grilled swordfish for Chris and a fresh made ravioli served with a lightly curried seafood ...
Cruising Across the Italian and French Riverias
The next day, I journeyed en route eastward for Italy via the train to Genova, along the Italian Riviera. On this train, I met an Australian woman independently backpacking through Europe; she was on a 12-month holiday from work (don't we all wish we had ...
Off the beaten path
We took a couple days to explore the country side and traveled through the hills to the south Riviera.... ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!! It was nice to get away from tourist groups and relax a bit... but getting to the relaxing took a bit to get to. ...
Portofino
... , please comment). A train ride and a bus transfer at Santa Margerita later, I found myself in the lush settings of Portofino. The local port is protected within a natural cove of lush green hills. In between all the greenness, colorful dreamy Italian ...
Portofino by bus
... and the bus had to pull over a number of times for cars to fit past and we had to stand all the way. Portofino has a sublime small, curved harbour with gorgeous painted 4 storey narrow houses with very expensive shops in the ground floor. All the ...
Portofino, Italy
... Internet session it was off to the hotel to pack again for a train ride in the morning to the Cinqueterre. I'm certainly glad I had Portofino and Santa Margherita Ligure on my itinerary. They were both incredibly beautiful and definitely worth a ...
Portofino
Morning visit to Portofino. By ferry from Rapallo, passing Santa Margharita Ligure on the ...
My Retirement Home
After Genova we hopped on the bus and headed to Margherita. It's a beautiful city on the coast. I was so tempted to get in the water for a swim but mother nature decided otherwise and less than 20 minutes after finding the beach it started to pour. ...
Portofino, Liguria, Italy
... us, "even Sicilians are people too!" I had the most delicious ravioli at O' Magazin in Portofino. We stayed at the Albergo Nazio -- the only hotel right on the water. Info on Portofino: ...
Portofino - Heaven on Earth
... also witnessed the marriage of a member of a British rowing team. What a spectacular setting for a wedding! Afterwards we returned to Portofino for lunch. Friends had told us that we must eat at Chufly Bar and Restorante, which is owned by Hotel ...
Portofino and my return to Portovenere
... a treat. It is hard not to get spoiled in one of Italy’s most beautiful as well as most exclusive seafront villages. Portofino’s beauty is breath taken. I thought it could not get better than Positano or Capri or Vernazza and there it was, ...
Small Town - Expensive Shopping
Hello, Portofino is a VERY small port village. But it's a popular vacation spot for the high-society type people. All of the shops were Louis Vuitton, Prada, etc. Very strange, considering it's essentially a fishing village. It took about an hour to ...
The Cruise - French and Italian Riverias
... , our room was bright orange too. (The marketing team in this company must have some serious clout). Our route was: Monaco, Genoa, Portofino, Imperia, and Nice. Monaco and Nice are in France, the others are in Italy. The boat was really nice; decent ...
Malvasia
... in the shade which helped make it tolerable. From Base 0, the path was mostly level and quite easy compared to our morning adventure. Portofino comes into view and it is all downhill. Five thousand stairs or so later we reach the town. It is very small ...
A quick trip to Portofino
Portofino is a tiny harbour which was once a fishing village and is now a harbour to wealthy people with yachts. Our ship moored off shore and we were tendered into the harbour. Seeing some steps we set off up the side of the cliff, coming across the ...
Portofino
11:21 AM Tuesday Oct 18th Port was Savona Tour to Portofino- up around 6 Am to get breakfast and catch excursion to Portofino at 8AM. Rode motor coach to city of Margherita and caught boat to Portifino. Weather was cool and of course we did not take ...
Portofina Italy
... out on the back terrace where the sky was a beautiful blue as was the water, back to our room and then off to see Portofino, Italy which is an extension of the French Riviera. We were taken in by our ships Tender to this very quaint town and then on a ...
Just strolling on the Italian Rivera
... out to David, Heather, Courtney and Lynda's mom there are Texans here as well from Houston. Our hike was to Portofino a coastal village on the Mediterranean. Portofino is on an area of the coast called the Italian Riviera. We ...
The classic Portofino
Well I found out where some of the rich people are staying - Portofino. Smaller than I expected but classically Italian Riviera. Our boat followed the coastline North enabling a view of the dramatic cliffs. We jettisoned into a small spot just North of ...
First Port
We just finished our frist port call at Portofino. It was very picturesic but for me the highlight was the restuarant we found for lunch! The best pesto pasta ever. Though since the cruise line lost my order for my tux and Kiyo's order for her shoes we ...
Portofino
... to avoid the sprawl of Genoa then along the coast through many rock tunnels to Rapallo & along the beautiful peninsula to Portofino Had to wait about 30 mins just before town for a parking place to become available but it was worth it. Interesting to ...
Perfect Portofino
We woke up early this morning to find ourselves at anchor off the picturesque fishing village of Portofino, Italy. We had been here once before 10 years ago, on the Marco Polo, so it was nice to be visiting again. After breakfast, we took ...
A top 100 place
Nice little village port reminiscent of Cornwall but a bit more imposing. Quaint, picturesque. We got the train and boat from the Terre Cinque 'a rugged section of the Italian Riveria'. Quite a nice coastline. Way too expensive to be sensible though. Two ...
The Port of Dolphins
Portofino, Italy Port of the Dolphins - Porto Delphino - Portofino…..not too difficult is it? The village of Portofino - is a small burg on the Italian Riviera. We took the tender from our ship bobbing along in the Mediterranean for ...
Playground to the Rich.
... there diligently cleaning and serving and shining everything in sight. Oh to be rich. Now there is one very important thing to note. I had the most mouth watering gelato in Portofino. Lemon and cioccolato. Absolute heaven. Next stop: Asti. ...
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