Today we are docked in our in the harbor at Santa Margherita and when we woke up it was raining and it rained all day!
The town is 22 miles southeast of Genoa and its part of the
Italian Riviera. It is a port for both
tourism and fishing activities with about 10,000 people all who seem to live on
the side of the hill leading down to the port.
We left the ship about 9:30am with raincoats on and an umbrella
and took the tender into the town. It
was drizzling and stayed that was all day.
We had a self-guided walking tour that took into a plaza as
port level with one of the two churches we visited. Then we walked a long walk up a very winding road
to beautiful church and restaurant at the top of the hill. The bad news is that they had closed the restaurant
that day.
Then we walked down the hill on very steep walkways into the
center of the town, which is the port area.
We stopped at noon at a very nice little restaurant and it
was warm inside so it was perfect.
We had a caprese salad and a great pizza. We met the owner who bought us each a small
sipping drink of Lemon Cello!!
Then we walked about the shops, ate one of their famous pastries
and took the shuttle boat back to the ship to dry out and rest.
Tonight the entertainment was a flautist who was very good; however, we probably wouldn't go to see her again.
Dinner in Blu was good and while you sit at a different
table for two each night, you are usually sitting next to another couple as we were this night and met an interesting couple from England. We have met several couples that we have
enjoyed talking to at dinner.
Then we went back to room to prepare for the next two days. We plan on packing only one "beach" type bag for the overnight trip.
The ship is docked overnight in the City of Lasperxia, Italy
and we will take the train into Florence and stay over night there. I will not be taking my laptop so the next
blog post will come in two days on Wednesday
