Karl arrived home in the early hours of this morning. I had to wait up for him as while he was away
I had changed the locks……. So after a very late night we were up and getting sorted
for our trip to Italy with our train leaving at a very respectable
11.30am. The boys and I were all packed
and so it was just Karl to get organised and me to get some lunch and snacks
sorted. The boys were each taking a
little backpack, I had a slightly larger one and Karl was bringing the little
cabin roller bag and his backpack. Easy
for when we are walking to and fro places.
Once we were ready we were off – just as we went down the street a bus
was coming so we jumped on and headed the short journey down to Vieux Port to
catch the metro. On arrival at St
Charles we quickly found our train and were ready for action.
We were in carriage 19 – which was right at the front. We were travelling on an Italian train which took us direct to Genova – awesome – arriving at 17.07, so just over 51/2 hours.
On the trip Connor spent a bit of time playing solitaire - great way to fill in some time. Great work Concon.
We all love
training, it is so relaxing and there is lots of leg room, great views and you
can wander! We trained around the coast which was great, stopping in Toulon,
Cannes, Nice, Monacco and lots of other little places on both sides of the
boarder before getting into Italy. The
trip really was gorgeous and I love how the train lines goes right along the
coast when they are able too.
We arrived
in Genoa slightly late as there was a delay at one of the stations. It was only about 1.5km to our accommodation
and so we walked there with Karl as our guide.
We quickly found Port Antico and then it took us a little longer to find
the little back street where our accommodation was – still we found it eventually
and then rang the number we had and as it turns out while this is there main
accommodation, they have a few others dotted around the Port and our was right
back in the main port area where we had already walked! Oh well – the manager
came and walked us to the new accommodation showing us where our boat left from
in the morning and advising that they had some discount cards which he would
drop off later. Got to our accommodation
and it was awesome; a one bedroom apartment with breakfast already set out and
ready to go………….and with great views of the port! Fantastic!
We got a local
recommendation for dinner and so headed out to find the restaurant. We got there and it was packed inside and
there was a cue outside…….anyway talked to the ower who advised that it would
be about an hour and a half wait – he recommended a couple of other places
around the back of his building – and so we headed there. Our first meal in Italy – Karl and Connor had
ravioli with a meat sauce, I had trivoli with pesto and Lachlan had seafood
pasta – all were delicious. I ordered a
white wine (thinking it was a glass) while Karl ordered a beer and I got a
whole carafe of wine – love this place!
Dinner was fab and then we headed back toward home to find a gelato shop
– easily found – and that was dessert!
Perfect day.
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