Marinella Genoa

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!

... best friends by the time we left... 7 Euro well spent!!

Fri 13 Nov
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 ...

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 train and stay a few days in one of the coastal towns. I think for my next trip to Europe its a must. The houses are so ...

... of the city and had the BEST focaccia bread ever! After we left the group we had lunch at a little place with outside cafe seats and it was terrific. Rachel had a spicy pizza, Il Diablo and I had a zucchini tart. Then we wandered back to the ship and now Rachel is at the gym and I am updating my blog! We are a lucky group here! Tonight is casual night thank goodness. More to come!

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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.

Lui è un cuoco statunitense sregolato, simpaticissimo e assolutamente fuori dalle righe ho letto anche il suo "Kitchen confidential" e mi ha divertito molto.

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... an hour to go get Macdonalds, they came back aminute before our train left. Awesome.

I was exhausted by this time, so when we got on our train to Genoa,I promptly proceeded to get some sleep.

Four - who can lose alimb or decapitate themselves first? Hmm, Ill say Richard. I woke uptoseeRicahrd standing above me,with half of his body out the window. A few seats down, Jyles had his head out the window. He was taking a picture of Richard. It was pitch black outside and I ...

... including a big feast on a shut down bridge over the Thames one night and then a night time "Carnival" themed parade along the river the next night finished with Fireworks that we could see from Cherrie's flat. I couldn't last long enough to watch them downtown and in the end it was good to get home earlier to make supper and get ready for my early morning flight to Genoa. Talk to you all again soon, Neil

Whoa! It seems so long since I've seen a computer. SO much has happened since my last login, I will barely be able to describe the last 5 days at one sitting. We left Florence in a little bit of a frenzy on Sunday, we were actually sitting down at an internet cafe bout ready to update this actually, when I realized we were supposed to be at our hostel in Riomaggiore before 4:30, and it was already 2:30...whoops. We ran out the place, and ...

... 11. I started out at the last village, Monterosso, intending to hike back. There are 4 trails in between the cities and theoretically, it should take one about 5 hours to complete them all. I hiked from Monterosso to Vernazza, which is supposed to be the most difficult of the hikes. I thought I was going to die. The only reason I didn't is because 1) there were a lot of people much older than I hiking and 2) the view. Never in all my 23 ...