Genoa, Italy – August 9

30 degrees, blazing sun that turned to haze

Today is another day we opted to not take a ship’s tour. Having had been in Genoa just last year, and considering the offerings, we decided to do our own thing. This meant another slow morning, I’m not sure how tomorrow will go when I have to be up and out for an actual organized tour.

woke up to this outside out deck

This morning we woke up in Italy and the land of huge yachts. OK, so we figure we’ve seen more and bigger, but not on this trip. There were a few

right outside our window this morning.

main church, went inside last time

It doesn’t seem to me that Genoa is on the where-to-visit-in-Italy bucket list. Most of the tours are designed to get people out of Genoa. We toured the town last year, but didn’t feel like doing it again, or spending a lot of time on a bus to see something out of town. So…we took it easy this morning and walked into town. Today’s walk in was about 10 minutes through the port – not much to see, but no problem. The area nearest the port wasn’t exactly posh, but not really seedy, just nothing for tourists – very local. We made it into the part of the old town with shops, restaurants and bars.

random street 

We remembered a lot of these places from last year and even found the place where we had lunch last year but didn’t stop. We finally settled on a place that wasn’t anything special, but the beer and pizza hit the spot.

The humidity has definitely returned today, so by the time lunch was over and we walked back to the ship I was ready for a cook drink in the ship’s lounge! Good thing is…no matter how drenched I get with laundry

gotta love the beer and pizza lunch!

service included there’s always clean clothes.

Although we weren’t sailing this afternoon (which was too bad) it was the perfect temperature for a late afternoon nap on our balcony. We were staying far away from the pool deck. Although we avoided the sun yesterday and stuck to the shade, the reflection of the sun still got us. We should have known this from experience, but sadly we didn’t and both of us are a bit red today.

Diana – yup, the room is HUGE. I think there’s more storage than I have at home. Name That Tune was a lot of fun.

Dave – we missed a John Farhnam Austrailian song I didn’t even recognize, the wrong Billy Joel title, didn’t know that “Here I Go Again on my Own” was by White Snake, also thought Careless Whisper was by Wham! but apparently it is only George Michael – boy did we feel like a couple of dummies!