Villa Bonera 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!

... the Med before taking us inland and through the olive groves.

On arrival at Portofino we were greeted with a similar village to those in Cinque Terre but not quite as quaint. Not sure what all the fuss is about...Santa Margherita wins our vote.

Back at Scooby for lunch of bbq chicken wraps and biscotti for dessert, then onto the autopista to lovely Lucca.

... moved and then as if to add one last jab she said, " Atleast we'll get away from the coughing guy", so now we are the ones who will catch sickness because we wanted out seats. We are damned if we do, damned if we don't. One way or another we can never make the people of the train happy.

We arrive in Genoa at the stop we think is ours. The weather is hot and sunny. We have a two hour lay over, so we stroll over to this beautiful town square that is within ...

... 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!

... questo blog e penso già alla sensazione che proverò quando scendendo dll'aereo sentirò una ventata di aria calda (e umida a quanto si dice) a darmi il benvenuto.
Mi piace questa idea di avere un diario di viaggio da condividere con gli amici
Mi hanno mandato a vedere questi 5 video di Antony ...

... WickedCamper! You can call it me and Chris’s first home together! Its pretty cool…the design we got is called ICE AGE and has an adorable penguin on one side and a confused/angry looking polar bear on the other side! The back says “Live every day as if it is your last…because one day you will be right!” Haha…not anytime soon though….dont worry moms! We do get quite a few looks while driving which is fun! When we open the trunk there is a ...

... and up the mountains behind it. We had no idea how steep the mountains in this area are. They make quite a backdrop coming right out of the sea as they do. Anyhow - back to our day. As I said the plan was to spend the day in Rapello, walk along the sea and some free time to take in the sights and shop or do whatever caught our fancy. As we researched the area we saw that Portofino was only 8 miles from Rapello. Portofino is a ...

... got up, sunbathed, drank all after noon, disappeared for dinner, and returned about 10pm when the music was cranked up and the drank some more and had a bit of a boogie. We can only hope to be as lively at their age. Sadly the cruise had to end and we departed in Nice, wondering what we were going to do with ourselves to fill in the five days left before we fly back to the UK. We'd had a great time and the thought of lugging our packs around again was not that appealing.

... hand. When he pushed he bumped into me and trying to stable myself planted my hand square on another one. I wuickly pulled my hand out to see dozens upon dozens of small pokes on the palm of my hand. WE quickly lost the determination and curiosity to climb the rock and swam back. The next morning we slept in finally, and it felt so good!! It was a glorious 11 hours of sleep. After Justin and I had lunch consisting of a loaf of bread we ...