I came to Genoa planning on only passing through for one night and then continuing on to Cinque Terre the next morning. I decided to slow down a bit and stay for another night and spent all yesterday wandering around Genoa getting a feel for the place. Getting here was a bit of a hassle however. The train from Venice to Milan was full so I had to stand the whole way (2.5 hours), and the train from Milan to Genoa was late. It also didn't take me all the way to the stop in Genoa I needed. So I had [View Full Entry]

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Rule #1 of traveling is to avoid sunburns on back, shoulders, chest, and upper legs like death! Fortunately, I avoided the back and my shoulders for the most part, but my chest all the way up to my shoulders and the front of my legs didn't managed to escape. There is a stripe going down the front of my legs, from upper thigh to ankle which makes squatting and kneeling down pretty damn uncomfortable, especially in jeans. But I'm wearing jeans because I don't want to shave over my burn in order to wear my shorts. The worst of it is [View Full Entry]

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We could sleep in this morning as our train to Genova doesn't leave until 11:44am. We had a leisurely (if not boring) breakfast and headed out into the rain to look for somewhere to buy lunch for the train ride. However, we didn't get far until we decided to get our bags down to the station and go looking from there. It's only 500m walk from our hotel to the station but not much fun in steady rain, holding an umbrella, trying (unsuccessfully) to keep our bags dry. Then Karina went and found some lunch and we waited for our train [View Full Entry]

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Ciao. We continue to have a great time. We had a great local dining experience last night. The waiter did not speak English and Jim wasn't sure what he was ordering, but all turned out well. Jim also picked out a wonderfully delicious dessert by sight which we both enjoyed. The irony to the dining experience was the owner's children bringing in McDonald's bags and eating the stuff their in the restaurant as we enjoyed our riggotoni with pesto and pasta and seafood. I came very close to going over there and saying "molto malde" which translates as very bad. We [View Full Entry]

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ciao. scusi the typing. punctuation hard and im too lazy to find it and want to type fast since im paying per hour here at the internet place here in genoa. having a great time. wwoofing was great. darcy and adolpho were great hosts and yes we worked our butts off. but on the flip side, we were able to eat a lot. you are asking, what did we do. well, we scooped horse and donkey poop and filled buckets and dug out trenches around fruit trees and applied the manure around the trees. we moved bales of hay from a [View Full Entry]

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The day started early with small hike to the old Genoa wall where youcan get a good Panoramic of the city. For the life of me i couldn't find my way to the old wall but i did get some good panoramic views! After that i took the Furniculare down to the town. Now when i was told that i could catch this contraptio down to the centre i had imagined that it would be like a ski lift affording beautiful views over Genova. But to my shock it was like a vertical tram.... unusual and an experience. After getting to [View Full Entry]

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Well, I spent my remaining days of my italian trip in Finale Ligure, visiting yet again some of my relatives. I spent most of my time with Laura. She is one of the nicest person I've ever met! We got along great and I loved talking to her! The only thing is that I ate WAYYY too much! She made lasagna, minestrone, torta verde...Anyways, I went to the market on thursday morning with her...the market is along the beach and it is beautiful! Right now, there are few people remaining in this small town, but in the summer, it is a [View Full Entry]

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Wake up Little Guses! Bright and early for us. Actually, not so bright. Had to be up again before sunrise to catch our train to Savona/Genova up on the northwestern corner of Italy’s coast. Yes, we stopped at the McCafe AGAIN this morning. But in our defense, it was the ONLY place open on a Sunday morning (ahem, and we’re addicted). This is the quietest the city ever seems to be. Sunday is truly respected as a day of rest and few shops are open, especially at 7:00 am. It can be a little inconvenient, but it’s nice to know that [View Full Entry]

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Buona sera bambini! Lo primero que tenia en la agenda hoy era hacer una ruta turistica por Nice. Hay un paseo en el que está la mayoria de cosas por ver por lo que con la moto ha sido un momento verlo. La verdad es que no he descubierto nada del otro mundo. La mejor parte de Nice esta en la zona marítima y una avenida que por el dia tiene que estar bastante concurrida de turistas, es la 5Av de Nice, mirare el nombre para ponerlo. Asi que enseguida he puesto rumbo a Montecarlo en Monaco. El viaje ha sido [View Full Entry]

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The train ride from La Spezia to Genoa was a pretty one, winding along the coast passed a lot of seaside villages. One thing that I have noticed is that Italy’s population of 60 million is spread out across the country. The biggest city Rome only has 3 million, and where we traveled there wasn’t really any areas where you could look out and just see paddocks, there always seemed to be a group of houses within sight. The only accommodation we didn’t have trouble finding was the B&B in Genoa. But … the man running it also had a job [View Full Entry]

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