Hotel Villa Marina
Travel Blogs from Pietra Ligure
To have and to have not !
... competition begins.
Imperia, like all the Riveria resorts, is populated by the haves and have nots. The public beaches are crowded (less so now), african pedlars meander between sun loungers plying their trade - cheap jewellery, sun glasses, umbrellas??. Late in the afternoon, we promenade over the headland to the marina where the rich ostentatiously lounge around their motor cruisers and ...
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
... After an ‘on zee ‘ouse’ liqueur for the girls (me driving again!) we got up to leave and one of the waiters promptly alerted the owner as if we were Royality itself, and we were treated to a passionate ‘arrivederchi’ which continued half way up the street and made us feel rather good. (I am under no illusions about the influence of my travelling companions in this story!)
The only blot on the Italian landscape was a ...
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 ...