San Marino and home

Trip Start Sep 18, 2006
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Friday, April 20, 2007

Ciao tutti!

Finally getting some time to make a new entry. The work is going forwards here at the shipyard and we can begin to see the end of this long journey. $650 000 is being dumped into the boat for a new interior and another 2 mill for the rest of the upgrade. Just like that. Damn it would be nice to be able to do the same!
Anyway, my girl was down from Sweden for a week and we had some time to go see some of the sites around here. First San Marino, which was beautiful, but destroyed by vendors all over this beautiful town trying to push their shit to the tourists. Taxfree but still expensive.
The landscape here is very special I must say. I have never see such a hilly and colorful countryside.
We also went to Porto Nuovo where Napoleon had his private stable. A very nice bay with the stable now converted into one of the nicer hotels around here. Right on the water. The mountain behind it doesn't seem to belong to Italy at all. It looks like a mountain side of some African jungle.
The water is still pretty cold here, but I heard the snow is finally gone from the northern mountains so it will start to warm up a little bit soon. We have 2 tenders to the boat and I can't just sit here and let them dry up in the sun when there are wake boards and skis to be abused.
I hope you're all doing well and let me know if you're coming to the rivieras this summer.

Cheers,

Tim
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