Friday, 9 March - Sunday, 11 March
Santa Margherita, Portofino, Rapallo, Genova
Family photo in Portofino
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This weekend we drove to the Italian Riviera. We started out our trip by driving about 2.5 hours to Santa Margherita where we had booked our hotel. Santa Margherita is a nice little town on the sea and about 15 minutes down the coast from Portofino. It's a bigger town than Portofino, with more restaurants and hotels. We spent Friday exploring the town and had pizza for dinner in a nice little trattoria across from the harbor.
Saturday we made our way by bus (a ferry runs in the summer) to Portofino and it is just as pretty as I thought it would be. We took a little hike to the church, castle and lighthouse where we had great view of the town. We had a picnic lunch of foccacia while sitting on the ground in front of the boats in the harbor.
Saturday evening we made our way down to Rapallo. Rapallo is a town not nearly as quaint as either Santa Margherita or Portofino. BUT there was a yummy Chinese restaurant there where we had our dinner. It was my first Chinese meal in Italy.
Before heading home on Sunday, we drove to the aquarium in Genova. It is the biggest aquaurium in Europe and while it was nice (and very crowded), I didn't think it beat the Atlanta or Chattanooga aquariums. Wren enjoyed her visit though.
Santa Margherita
Boats in the harbor of Santa Margherita
Portofino is lovely
view from the castle
west side of the Portofino harbor with the Mediterranean sea behind
Gelato is yummy!
Wren and Daddy
Wren loves her daddy!
