Residence Colibri
Travel Blogs from Loano
To have and to have not !
... We chat to an english crew member of a large dutch owned cruiser who tells us that the owner only visits for a couple of weeks twice in the summer. The cruiser has a crew of four employed throughout the year. including the berth, the costs must be enormous and this is one of the smaller boats.
Time passes idly by and Signor e Signora compile their own lists of do's and dont's for spending ...
Italy on the Med
Fri 24 Aug Firenza - Ceriale
(via Lucca, Genova)
Another hot and sticky night, but by early morning it was cool and very pleasant. Packing up the van was easy and after emptying and filling the necessary we set off out of Firenza en route for Lucca, recommended by Paul, Cate's husband. Easy going on the autostrada and not so difficult to find a car space for the van just outside the city ramparts. We strolled round the city wall for a while then turned towards the ...
Ventimiglia
We set off from Montreux at 7h30 this morning and at 15h30 had had enough driving and stopped in Ventimiglia. Ventimiglia is just on the Italian side of the border with France. The novelty of driving in the campervans has well & truly worn off! A board meeting was held and it was unanimously agreed that we would ...
La dolce vita
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We went to Italy, to the coast line west of Genoa and east of Monaco, which as I kept explaining to the girls, was once the province of James Bond and the like, who idled their days away driving their Aston Martins around the hair pin bends with gorgeous girls at their sides. We cut a similar dash, three gorgeous girls in our cute white Fiat 500, as we sought to master the right side of the road, the rather alarming bends and the Italian way ...
Italian Riviera
... we accomplished our hit and run visit and Wanda was as happy as a little girl in a lolly shop,not like she was when I said it would be too hard.........,then she looked like Matty on "lawn mowing" day.
By the way Matty, how are the lawns looking?
We arrived in Spotorno on the Ligura coast about 50km from Genoa and 10km from Savona yesterday afternoon to find the Hotel perched high in the hill overlooking the beach.
Although it has only a population of 4,000,I ...