Monday: Rome
Tuesday: Rome-Venice-Trieste-Rome-Genoa.
Wednesday: Genoa, Livorno/Leghorn
Thursday: Genoa, Monte Carlo, Nice
Tuesday was a bit nuts, but it worked. After a spring-ish day in Rome on Monday, Tuesday was bitter cold with lots of wind. In Trieste the Buro winds off the Alps were blowing up to 70mph. Taking off from the airport in that was ..... "exciting". Today at least we didn't have to fly. A couple of owner visits in Genoa to start. In the square just outside the offices of a couple clients is one of the old Genovese city gates (see attached). If you look at the building to the right you'll see a very small stone/brick house in front. This is where Christopher Columbus was born.
Spent the afternoon driving 2hrs south to Livorno (also known as Leghorn in English) in Tuscany. The autostrada runs between the coast and one of the Apennine mountain chains. These are some very respectable peaks. In the 2nd attached pic you can see that the peaks are snow capped. The white down low is not snow, but rather some of the famous Italian marble quarries.
Got passed by a police car chasing someone on the highway. The police car was a Lambourgini. Only in Italy.
Livorno is a neat old seaport. Lots of old fortresses around the city and an extensive canal system like venice. It was just clear enough to see Elba island on the horizon, but couldn't quite see Corsica out there.
TWG
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Via Blackberry
Thursday: Genoa, Monte Carlo, Nice
Tuesday was a bit nuts, but it worked. After a spring-ish day in Rome on Monday, Tuesday was bitter cold with lots of wind. In Trieste the Buro winds off the Alps were blowing up to 70mph. Taking off from the airport in that was ..... "exciting". Today at least we didn't have to fly. A couple of owner visits in Genoa to start. In the square just outside the offices of a couple clients is one of the old Genovese city gates (see attached). If you look at the building to the right you'll see a very small stone/brick house in front. This is where Christopher Columbus was born.
Spent the afternoon driving 2hrs south to Livorno (also known as Leghorn in English) in Tuscany. The autostrada runs between the coast and one of the Apennine mountain chains. These are some very respectable peaks. In the 2nd attached pic you can see that the peaks are snow capped. The white down low is not snow, but rather some of the famous Italian marble quarries.
Got passed by a police car chasing someone on the highway. The police car was a Lambourgini. Only in Italy.
Livorno is a neat old seaport. Lots of old fortresses around the city and an extensive canal system like venice. It was just clear enough to see Elba island on the horizon, but couldn't quite see Corsica out there.
TWG
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Via Blackberry
