Zia Piera Chiavari

We will be staying Riomaggiore (one of the five villages) and have booked our accomodation already at Casa Lorenza  We will be staying in apartment Nettuno.

What shouldn't we miss while we are here?

... randonne de 4.5 heures avec des vues incoryables sur la mer et les falaises.

avec le retard du train, nous somme revenue a Pise en debut de soiree. Apres un autre excellent repas accompagne d'un chianti local, je me lance a la recherche d'une auberge pour notre destination de demain : florence

... so we decided it was best to settle away from the centre of town for a change and park in a residential district about 1km away... much more tranquilo!!

Splashed out on take away pizza for dinner but ate it in the shop and washed down with a bottle of beer. We became the hot topic of conversation when owners and local patrons found out we were Australian and were ...

... leaving you with a bright cheery feeling, the sun is shining and there are palm trees everywhere. Anyways back to Genoa the soon to be ground hog's day of our trip. We had checked, checked and double checked our ticket to make sure we knew of any transfers and where they happened. We made sure we were in our rightful seats even we have had to many experiences of getting in trouble for being in the wrong seat and we are tired of playing musical chairs. As we ...

... 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 ...

... ticket said La Spezia on it but didn't specify which one since there are apparently two stations in the tiny town; one on the outskirts and one in the center. The girls and I along with probably another dozen American tourists got off on the wrong one and had to search for help. The only person at the station other than us was the train engineer. He helped some but we had to wait in the rain for around half an hour for the next train to take us to either the central station or ...

... upon a wondrous pocket of joy in that there B&B), which was partly run by the coolest lady ever. Her name is Lina, she's big and slightly old and speaks barely a word of English. This did not, however, stop her from having whole loud, animated conversations with all of us (Karen translated what she could, which was enough). She's one of those ladies that is just so terribly warm and so terribly excited to see new people that you just ...

... stuff on for lunches. So in Riomaggiore, we grabbed three small foccacias - for mum, one with four cheeses, and to share an olive one (of course) and one with this yummy caramelised onion on it - and sat down near the boat ramp having a little picnic in the sun, by the gorgeously calm green-blue sea. And proceeded to be amused by the antics of the schools of fish we could see below, American tourists trying to climb across impossibly slippery rocks and best of all, these two old ...

Caught a train, then another and another and then I was in Cinque Terre! I caught the train to Monterosso, the last of the five villages. The train ride to here was very dark and boring, as the track went through tunnels. Monterosso very touristy. The beach is beautiful, but full of beach chairs and umbrellas. There is a very small section of public beach, which is free. I decided to catch a boat that went from village to village so I ...

... Remo vieren we, nog steeds verwaaid, Esthers verjaardag: niks doen, relaxen, heel luxe uiteten (Chateau Briand). In het aquarium van het restaurant leven de raarste vissen, zeeduivels en dergelijken. Na de derde dag in San Remo wordt het zonnepaneel gemonteerd, wat meteen goed van pas komt: de zon gaat schijnen, dus de accu blijft vol. Eindelijk mogen we San Remo verlaten en kunnen we op weg naar Alassio. Een mooie zeiltocht naar een zeer ...