Poggio Hotel Arenzano

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 small car parks and narrow ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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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 č 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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... you share the road with the train.

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 ...

... in advance for any offense): The cafe in Genova was rather unremarkable. Itīs primary attraction being the proximity to the train station. I was supposed to be half way to Nice by now. I was not supposed to be sitting here with a mezzo litre of Lambrusco listening to, oddly enough, Areosmith (from the latter part of their catalogue, I believe). Itīs my fault really. You see, I was under the delusion that once the large board in the station is finished flipping over all itīs ...

... place to stay. We quickly set off for a walk along the pathway through the villages. We were blessed with a gorgeous day - warm and sunny. As the light was fading we caught the local train back to our starting point and turned our attention to finding some dinner. The choices in winter are fairly limited - we ended up having pizza with a bottle of local wine. Yum. Next morning we did a bit more exploring and watched the fishermen rowing ...

... about to board a train to Genova, Italy. The thrill of crossing over to Italy made up for the sad goodbye kiss to France. It was a lovely train journey along the sea for an hour or so. The scenery was tinted Mediterranean blue. Snoozing for a couple of minutes with the pleasant blue memories, I woke up suddenly to see a brown landscape. What a transition! We were in Italy. Changing trains at Genova, we reached ...