hi ..... imagine a day like no other....we left our wonderful castle room in Torino to go to Portofino first. Les had read about it years ago and wanted to see it up close and personal. it is all it is made out to be. exclusive. hard to get to with narrow roads where only one car can pass in certain spots. it is major expensive (altho my cappuccino was not). and we bought an olive dispenser as a chochky to remember it by. we parked and it was 5 euro an hour - we got back at 59 minutes !!! without a watch, this was a feat !!! The yachts well .......... imagine the most gorgeous yacht you can and then multiply it by 1,000 and maybe you can imagine them....
then we drove onto Cinque Terre. I had heard so much about it and had not ever seen it.... I wanted to change my mind after 90% of the trip down - the road got so narrow and the cliff was so dramatic, my heart was pounding !!!! well, it was a gorgeous ride down, the mountain is green and has many levels of maybe grape plantations and the houses are perched on the cliffside.... but you cannot park in town and there was no parking space available on the street or in the parking garage, so we turned around and went onto Pisa. We were a little grouchy - no real food except some water and old baguettes and hardened cheese. Too late a night last night and not time this morning to shop since we thought we could do breakfast in Portofino and decided to skip it for Cinque Terre. Just a little testy with each
other .... but hey, hard to be perfect and hard to drive in explored territory and very hard to drive/be a passenger when you are hungry !!! I want a tomtom !!!!
after lots of driving and lots of getting lost in the environs of Pisa, we found the tower. The town was not pretty and the ride in was confusing and the signage non existant but Pisa is in a little enclosed area and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh amazing. very touristy with tons of stalls and tons of people and other bldgs besides the tower.
Now we are here in Lastra, right outside Florence. This is just a quick stopover and my wine is calling for me ... soooooooooooooo good and soooooooooooo inexpensive, I may never be able to pay a lot for a good French or Italian of wine again .... it just seems wrong when it is dirt cheap here - and I mean a dollar a bottle for smooth fruity delicious red wine....
so tomorrow we drive to Rome. My hubby is already enjoying a well deserved beer. He has driven all of 10 hours today. I think we exagerrated a bit but I don't think we will come back this way ever again - there are too many other places in the world to go to ...so we are stuffing it all in !!!!!!! He is driving so well, so very very well but today he got the arm gesture Italians are famous for !!! He can never get into the right lane fast enough for the extremely aggressive Italian machos !!!! They come right up to the back of the car - so close , so close, it cannot even be called tailgating - it is tailkissing !!!!!
then we drove onto Cinque Terre. I had heard so much about it and had not ever seen it.... I wanted to change my mind after 90% of the trip down - the road got so narrow and the cliff was so dramatic, my heart was pounding !!!! well, it was a gorgeous ride down, the mountain is green and has many levels of maybe grape plantations and the houses are perched on the cliffside.... but you cannot park in town and there was no parking space available on the street or in the parking garage, so we turned around and went onto Pisa. We were a little grouchy - no real food except some water and old baguettes and hardened cheese. Too late a night last night and not time this morning to shop since we thought we could do breakfast in Portofino and decided to skip it for Cinque Terre. Just a little testy with each
other .... but hey, hard to be perfect and hard to drive in explored territory and very hard to drive/be a passenger when you are hungry !!! I want a tomtom !!!!after lots of driving and lots of getting lost in the environs of Pisa, we found the tower. The town was not pretty and the ride in was confusing and the signage non existant but Pisa is in a little enclosed area and ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh amazing. very touristy with tons of stalls and tons of people and other bldgs besides the tower.
Now we are here in Lastra, right outside Florence. This is just a quick stopover and my wine is calling for me ... soooooooooooooo good and soooooooooooo inexpensive, I may never be able to pay a lot for a good French or Italian of wine again .... it just seems wrong when it is dirt cheap here - and I mean a dollar a bottle for smooth fruity delicious red wine....
so tomorrow we drive to Rome. My hubby is already enjoying a well deserved beer. He has driven all of 10 hours today. I think we exagerrated a bit but I don't think we will come back this way ever again - there are too many other places in the world to go to ...so we are stuffing it all in !!!!!!! He is driving so well, so very very well but today he got the arm gesture Italians are famous for !!! He can never get into the right lane fast enough for the extremely aggressive Italian machos !!!! They come right up to the back of the car - so close , so close, it cannot even be called tailgating - it is tailkissing !!!!!
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