A brief stop in Italy before heading back to Menton, France
Having arrived back in Sanremo, David headed off to the port police to check in, and see about handing our transit log back in, to be told, a) we could only stay 1 night...
Italy
The Tiny Island of Capraia.
So, on the 1st August, intending on going ashore to visit Macinaggio, we woke to an un-forecasted SE4 and 1/2M swells blowing straight into our safe harbour, typical. With only 2 metres under us...
Our Circumnavigation of Isla di Elba
We left Marcianna on the 23rd July to go around the western part of Elba to Fetovaio, under sail the whole way. The bay, which has beautiful clear turquoise waters was not surprisingly very...
Livorno & Florence
On the 13th July, we set sail in a fabulous southerly wind pushing us the 44NM’s sail to Livorno. Despite the sailing conditions, there were very few boats about, although we do have to...
Lerici & Portovenere
On the 11th July, we headed the short distance across the Gulf of La Spezia, to Lerici, a pretty little town, one that could have been the 6th Terre! Thankfully for us, its geography...
Cinque Terre
With no wind forecasted for the next few days, which we really couldn’t wait for, so on the 8th July we finally left Savona, and motored rather dully for 7 hours straight across the...
Our Road Trip Day 2 to Genoa
We awoke in the morning to see the new arrival in Savona, completely dwarfing the harbour, so glad it wasn’t there when we first came in! Without much ado, we jumped in the car,...
Road Trip Day 1 to Portofino and its neighbouring villages
On the 5th July we jumped in our little hire car and took the quickest route to beyond Genoa, picking up the coast road to drop down to visit the cute seaside town of...
The Ligurian Towns of Imperia & Loana
8:30 am, having been woken up by the bin lorries early call, (we forgot to mention that in our last blog, but essentially the streets were too narrow for normal sized bin lorries so...
