http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Italy , Liguria , Genoa en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:16:58 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:16:58 UTC Trip to EuropeGenova Portofino Nice Grasse CannesUnder Construction http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-318310.html So I made entirely the wrong choice in friends here in Italy. I also just realised I seem to start every single blog with the word 'so'. Anywho I have somehow managed to be friends with entirely beautiful people including a stunning German girl and a beautiful Swedish boy who could sell me underwear anyday. I realised this the other day whilst sat on the giant rock that passed for a beach in th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-317177.html 24.8. Hyvll ja huonolla tuulella kohti GenovaaLoanosta lhtiess tuntui vsymyst tyyyls aina tm tuuletaotavettkershkjohtosiivoatavarat.... Luultiin matkavsymykseksi mutta tuumittiin sitten ett omakotitaloasumusvsymyst se on. Samaa kuin olis ett leikkaanurtsikorjaakatto.Stiedotus oli luvannut kohtalaista tuulta ja isohkoa allokkoa. Aaltoja oli mutta niin tuultakin. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-316763.html HI THERE for those with no Italian language skills like me allora means and then and it is used by everyone hundreds of times a day in their speech....so after Sicily and 7 weeks of cycling in high temps of 40 odd and continued sunshine I ferried accross to Sardinia to more of the same but also strong winds coming down from France called The Mistral....what with heat sunshine wind and moun http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-315271.html Well hello my loyal band of followers I am once again back in the sunny land of Italia. Dont you just hate me So yes I arrived on Sunday my appartment is a lot nicer than I was expecting it to be I'm sharing it with a lovely german girl called Anne and a very nice spanish couple called Dani and insert name of girlfriend which i've forgotten here. So fun house times yay. Unfortunately all http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-314210.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-293845.html Rule 1 of traveling is to avoid sunburns on back shoulders chest and upper legs like deathFortunately 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 uncomfortabl http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-286818.html We could sleep in this morning as our train to Genova doesn't leave until 1144am. 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-281930.html 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 re http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-254695.html 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 buc http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-254286.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-244196.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-225099.html 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 Italyrsquos population of 60 million is spread out across the country. The biggest city Rome only has 3 million and where we traveled there wasnrsquot really any areas where you could look out and just see paddocks there always seemed to be http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-223198.html 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 SavonaGenova up on the northwestern corner of Italyrsquos 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 wersquore addicted. This is the quietest the city ever seems to be. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-212334.html While it was still dark out the owner Mark Elizabeth took their dog Dante for his morning constitution Andy stumbled into the shower laterally at 0615 he had stayed out on the dock with other cursers until the wee hours of the morning drinking wine beer and I am sure what ever was going free on the dock. I rolled over in my bunk it felt like I had slept for less than 10 hours in the last 48 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-201945.html Been in Genoa Italy since Saturday arrived at the ship to find that they had off loaded earlier than scheduled for the boat and Andy were gone of course the battery on my cell phone was flat and the new 12V charger I purchased is in the cabinet draw behind the desk. I managed to get a ride from the port security back to hotel where Andy had been staying after settling his account good job I sto http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-201935.html The ferry over from Split to Ancona was actually fairly highrolling.Among the amenities available on board were a restaurant bar and casino.It was a 10 hour overnight voyage so I decided to book a bed in a 4bed cabin so I could get some decent sleep and in the process manage to score a 10euro discount for being under 26 score Also the boat was pretty empty so there was noone else in m http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-188597.html Hey everyone its been a while since our last blog..but this is what we have been up to.... after Valencia we went to pamplona for the running of the bulls festival which was insane we were there with hattietim and their friends scott and taniawe stayed in an apartmentmarae style place right in the centre of the city it was basically a 3 day party..which was something pretty special when hat http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-184538.html We have reached the land of the eurotrunk. So many tanned men in euros and I think Sean is a little out of his league.We hired a car from Genoa airport near the border of France and Italy and drove south. We spent two nights at Levanto the town just before the Cinque Terre. Our host was young tanned good looking Italian. He had just spent 3 months in Australia surfing . . . LOVELY guy.We caught http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-178348.html To say that I still can't download any of my photos to show you all But I have been in Genova since Wednesday and I have had a great time. I met some wonderful people Vilija has been sooo lucky to have met such nice people here. The Hen's night was a Blast meeting all these people and having a Turkish Hammam not that much like the one in Morocco I'm afraid. More Gentile. I am learnin http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-155509.html Jen and I took a midnight train out of Roma Termini to head to Genoa on Thursday. The cars had really neat seats that folded out into beds but it was really cold in our compartment and I couldnt get comfortable so I didnt get much sleep at all. There was a nice lady from Genoa in the car with us who told us about some neat places to go visit while we were there. We arrived in Genoa at 6am but http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-132739.html Returning to Madrid following Toledo was bitter sweet. Madrid was a big city...but gorgeous at night. Parting from Nic who I was originally travelling with at the Madrid airport Nic leaving to London to return to his family and myself in search of my italian roots I hopped an easyjet flight to Milan as it was the cheapest flight into Italy and decently close to the home of the Simonettis Al http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-127344.html Merry Christmas and Happy New Year EveryoneWell it has been an exciting 8 days. I left Ljubljana early on the 23rd for Italy to join my Zia Marlene and Zio Luigi for a wonderful Christmas is Genoa Five uneventful hours on a train and an additional four by car we arrived to a beatiful sunny 15 degree Mediterranean Coast that was absolutely refreshing after 2 months of fog in Ljubljana S http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-114776.html Ok so back to EnglishIt is now Sunday night and I am writing this entry sitting in my room listening to the Italian radio and just chilling out. As I reflect on the last three weeks as I do when I try to write this blog a lot has happened in this time. True to my style of not wanting to sit in the one place to long thanks mum for reminding me of this. I have been in some serious giro going http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-106381.html So the first thing I did before I decided to write today was to try and figure out when was the last time that I wrote and I just figured that it has been five weeks my longest stint without committing anything to writing on my trip to datePerhaps there are reasons for this the first is that I spent my first two weeks in Genova discovering the city reading all the tourist information guides http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-101332.html Ciao Ragazzi Come Va Io sono molto benehellip..So it has been a couple of weeks since my last entry. For some reason I always choose Fridays yet again today to scrivo write my blog entries. After countless emails from people arriving to work on Monday morning receiving my email alerts I am so sorry that you have to hear about my adventures on a Monday morning but for some reason it is http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-93433.html Took a 3 hr train from Nice to Genoa....it certainly felt a lot longer as a result of getting home in the wee hours of morning. Sitting next to us was an American guy who had been studying in Germany which led to a good conversation about the differences between the North American and European ways of life. There was needless to say a little entertainment to follow when the ticket Boss came http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-81426.html Got a few updates for you so here goesWe left Venice a while ago we think Didnt really know where we were going so decided to head for Genoa on the other side of Italy. Ended up travelling all the way there in a day which took about 8 hours after the long journey we didnt fancy finding a camp site so found a hotel instead with a much needed pool of course. It was on the coast west of Ge http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-81002.html HiI typed this beautiful and oh so long blog only to have it erased so here goes again but with maybe just slightly less enthusiasm.So on August 1st at 430pm i got a job on a boat and at 1030pm that very evening i arrived in Monte Carlo train station to meet the boat which was at the port preparing to leave to Genoa the next day at 5am. I'm 4th stewardess...not very glam and mainly just a glori http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-79991.html soo.. its been a long time Everything is going unreal We're both doing really well and having an amazing time exploring Europe. So far we've done the west coast countries and they surpast our expectations. We've seen some amazing sights and had a great time. Now we are at our half way point ... can you believe it We split our trip to Italy up into two parts with our trip to Greece being in t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/Italy/Liguria/Genoa/blog-76205.html