A shorts and light shirt day, perfect weather, and we rented electric bicycles to extend our range of exploration. We could have walked 3-5 miles , but on the bikes, we covered 10-15 miles with little effort. Although we have bikes at home, electric bicycles are new to us. Great fun! We followed a river trail to an interesting bridge, then coasted back down river to Cannobio.
A pretty little waterfall we discovered while bicycling. Plenty of trails for hiking in the area if you don't mind steep ascents.
Our Mercedes (A200D) was a great vehicles for our time in Italy. If we had driven it over the border to Nice, France, our rental fee would have increased by about a thousand dollars.
It was a three hour drive to Genoa, and it's a big city. Not fun at all driving here. You may have 2-3 lanes of traffic in your direction, but then motorcycles and scooters are driving between the
lanes. So it is more like five lanes. Then we had entire streets blocked by police or construction, and we had lanes stopped by unloading vehicles, and one-way streets just where you wanted to turn. We got to our B&B location to discover that there was not a single parking space on the busy street, and no one answered the door at our given address. Answer? We drove to the Hertz location, turned in our Mercedes, and took a taxi back to the B&B. But our room is very nice and just a block off the Mediterranean. Our B&B proved to be very enjoyable. We met a boat builder from Poland and financial backer from Rome, both here for a boat show. Our hostess, Isabella, was interested in our needs and also our views; she is interested in traveling herself and is planning to come to the US next April. We invited her to visit us.
After dinner (8pm) last night, we were walking along wide promenade at the sea wall, and considering how we got here. Just a nerdy kid from Omaha and his adventuresome girlfriend; very satisfying to set goals and accomplish them.
We spent most of a day traveling from Genoa to Nice by train. At the border, we switched to a French train. Two armed police came on board; questioned and removed a passenger from our car. We notice roving patrols of three soldiers with assault rifles in hand slowly moving down the avenues in formation, eyes carefully sweeping across the clusters of pedestrians. At the train station, barricades prevent vehicles from getting close. After getting settled and dinner, we walked to the beach and then to an overlook where the city spread below us.
Nice, France, at night viewed from the elevated park at the east end of the main beach.
Our Mercedes (A200D) was a great vehicles for our time in Italy. If we had driven it over the border to Nice, France, our rental fee would have increased by about a thousand dollars.
It was a three hour drive to Genoa, and it's a big city. Not fun at all driving here. You may have 2-3 lanes of traffic in your direction, but then motorcycles and scooters are driving between the
lanes. So it is more like five lanes. Then we had entire streets blocked by police or construction, and we had lanes stopped by unloading vehicles, and one-way streets just where you wanted to turn. We got to our B&B location to discover that there was not a single parking space on the busy street, and no one answered the door at our given address. Answer? We drove to the Hertz location, turned in our Mercedes, and took a taxi back to the B&B. But our room is very nice and just a block off the Mediterranean. Our B&B proved to be very enjoyable. We met a boat builder from Poland and financial backer from Rome, both here for a boat show. Our hostess, Isabella, was interested in our needs and also our views; she is interested in traveling herself and is planning to come to the US next April. We invited her to visit us.
After dinner (8pm) last night, we were walking along wide promenade at the sea wall, and considering how we got here. Just a nerdy kid from Omaha and his adventuresome girlfriend; very satisfying to set goals and accomplish them.
We spent most of a day traveling from Genoa to Nice by train. At the border, we switched to a French train. Two armed police came on board; questioned and removed a passenger from our car. We notice roving patrols of three soldiers with assault rifles in hand slowly moving down the avenues in formation, eyes carefully sweeping across the clusters of pedestrians. At the train station, barricades prevent vehicles from getting close. After getting settled and dinner, we walked to the beach and then to an overlook where the city spread below us.
Nice, France, at night viewed from the elevated park at the east end of the main beach.
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