Hotel Garden Palace Varazze

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...

Flew to Milan from Dublin then took the train to Savona to board the cruise. Quaint little seaport town which I wish I had more time to explore. Forgot to take a picture of the ship! Not sure how I feel about a big cruise ship (3,800 passengers) but the price was right so thought I would experience it!

As the traffic had been horrendous yesterday we decided to hit the autostrada and pay the tolls to save our sanity and hightail it to our next destination. 130kms and 10 Euro later we arrived in Santa Margherita Ligure, which is just up the road from Portofino.

This place is a bit larger than we are used to and Italian towns all have s...

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...

15 Marzo 2006 Finalmente, dopo moooooolte traversie per preparare questo viaggio al meglio facciamo il primo passo diretto verso il periplo....ancora ipotetico ma agognato.....del globo. Partiamo da Gavi, (www.comune.gavi.al.it) Italia, basso Piemonte, provincia di Alessandria(latitudine: 44° 41' 18'' - longitudine: 8° 48' 37''), mio paese natal...

The Cinque Terre region is one of my favourites so far. The Cinque Terre consists of five villages along the dramatic hilly coastline, perched above the sparkling sea. We chose the town of Vernazza to use as a base to explore this area and we were so glad we did. Vernazza is absolutely stunning. All the buildings are pastel or terra cotta colour...