Golden Tulip Moderno Verdi Genoa

Travelling alone has great joys and a few downsides. Sharing memorable sights are communicated to my trusty camera and will soon be stored on the laptop and backed up on a memory stick. But what about experiences that defy the storage on digital media?

Well as kit and caboodle was being packed, somebody stowed away buried in the depths ...

Just how brilliant is the Internet? Sitting in my hotel room on a cold, wet and windy day in Genoa I have been to Spain, Canada, the States and sunny warm Jamaica. I have intended for ages to research the places I am visiting because I cannot guarantee that I will have Internet access in the ports I visit. Contrary to popular belief, there is no...

Arrived in Genoa last Monday 8th Feb as the ship (Zim Ontario) was originally due in today (10th Feb) and it is expected you are in the port ready to roll so to speak just in case the ship is early. This is a containership that carries passengers, so the priority is containers, not pax! Still, flight booked and hotel sorted to find that the ship...

MSC Kreuzfahrt - MSC Fantasia westl. Mittelmeer!
Datum: 9. Jänner 2010
Uhrzeit: 00:19
Teilnehmer: Julia und Thomas Niederer
Tag: 3
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8:00 Uhr und der Wecker klinglete - morgentlicher Gang ins Badezimmer und dann Anziehen
und ab...

So, I got up at 6:00 am., took advantage of the hotel breakfast, and made my way to the airport. I basically took a cab from my hotel to the train station because it was just too early to forge through the mess of snow and cold and for the 13e, it was just better.

I took the shuttle from the central station to the Malpensea airport. Ther...

We made our way past Genoa (we didn't want to relive Genoa since the last time we were there, we were sick as dogs) into the valley and the city of Rapallo. Rapallo is a big tourist town since although it is right between 2 mountains, the Mediterranean comes right up to it in a small bay. Beautiful but freezing. It had snowed here and since it i...

Sadie and I left beatiful peaceful Florence to mean unhelpful Genoa. We have been so spoiled in our travels up till this point. We usually have a bit of train trouble but nothing that can't be fixed or solved within an hour. Well landing in Genoa was not the case. The train ride up the coast was breath taking, I wanted so badly to jump off the t...

19-08-2008 so today we drove to Genoa to catch our ferry and spent the afternoon there. WOW, gorgeous city, an unexpected gem, we went for lunch (ok im really sorry but our trip does revolve around food), lovely lunch followed by a few hours strolling rounf Genoa, the port and th historic centre, lovely stuff...so we decided to get the car and t...

While reading a backpacker magazine in a hostel Liz saw an ad for easyCruise and a half price end of season special. It worked out to be only marginally more expensive than backpackers in the area, so why not give it a go? EasyJet are a cut-price airline that is a market leader over here and they now run easyCruise, which runs around the French ...

Using Florence as a home base, I have taken a few trips to see more of what Italy has to offer. I had intended to see Rome for a few days and wanted also to see the villages nestled on the sea called Cinque Terre, which means the Five Lands. My trip to Rome came from the easy going and fly by the seat of your pants freedom and spontanaeity that ...