Jolly Plaza Genoa

... best friends by the time we left... 7 Euro well spent!!<br><br>Fri 13 Nov<br>Drizzle greeted us this morning so we got on our wet weather gear and headed off for a walk along the coast to Portofino which was 5km away. The wind blew away any cobwebs we may have had but it blew the rain away so we were happy. The walk followed the coast where we looked into the deep blues ...

... distance from the train station. Sadie and I take turns exploring the area, it is so cool that the ocean is so near. This seems like a great town to spend time in. The time comes to get on our connecting train then the bad news comes that we have gotten off at the wrong stop. Little did we know that there are two stops in Genoa. We miss our connecting train by 20 minutes and now come to find out are stuck in this town for the next 3 hours. The horrible ...

... the 11C and there aren't any Roman ruins because the Genovans needed to build somewhere so they just built on top of the old stuff! Anyways it is built on a hill and the modern part is at the top and to get there you travel over little tiny streets and even smaller alley like paths where the buildings appear to almost meet at their tops. We also saw the 16th C palaces nearing the ...

Destination 404<br><br>km197'196<br><br>A wonderful winding route via a inland section have lead me from Pisa to the coastline around Genova. But since in that part of the environment it was very hard to find a spot for bushcamping I took the toll freeway to prevent to get stuck in the chaotic traffic of Genova and headed north into the highlands of the northern region of Genova. A beatiful spot at the top of a mountain has provided perfect views to sunset and sunrise, but a bloody cold night!

... a Singapore. <br><br>Lui è un cuoco statunitense sregolato, simpaticissimo e assolutamente fuori dalle righe ho letto anche il suo "Kitchen confidential" e mi ha divertito molto.<br><br>http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=7vEtfakmiik<br><br>Non verrebbe voglia anche a voi di provere tutti questi posti?

... you share the road with the train. <br><br>Departing Munchen was actually quite simple thanks to the BMW Navigation System Dawn ordered with her car. The BMW system is now all contained on a hard drive so there is no need to insert various DVD's of regions that you may be traveling in. BMW programmed in the map system for all of Europe prior to our arrival and will reprogram the car for the US before they ship it over. It is a lovely system ...

<br> Today we woke up in Genoa. We had arranged to join a group that was going to Cinque Terre, which are five small fishing villages along the coast. Until recently, they were pretty inaccessible, but now you can get there by car, train or ferry. It is an amazing place. The only small disappointment was that the sea was a little too rough so we couldn&#8217;t ...

... I have to get those pictures from Erin and the girls. We then went up to a small restaurant/cafe that was on the second floor, so we sat outside on a terrace designed by Renzo Piano and had coffee and ice cream (I had the ice cream of course). Kara proposed we go visit a large garden area in a palace that was shown on the map, so before we headed back to the room we attempted to go find it. We saw a more direct route that included a more industrial spiral stair and a ...

... the typical Italian style village and it was a good opportunity to see people going about their everyday lives. The hike from one end to the other is only about 14km and is not all that difficult but makes you earn that beer at the end. For the other days of my stay I would get the train to one of the villages and just hang out for the day eating pizza and gelati and just watching the world go by. Saw an ...

... pay for it. Venice was pretty neat - it's amazing how the city is - and how everything is on the water... you get a good feel for it by taking the water bus everywhere - it's hard to imagine all the ways that it would impact your life. But the history in this country is unbelievable - makes North America seem so young! And I have to admit that I didn't really appreciate Venice until after I left and was able to digest what I saw. I felt like I ...