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In our hotel in Genoa in the morning, watching Italian TV. I think I look a bit like a zombie here.07:59:51
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You can't escape Peppa Pig it seems.09:00:16
Bit of an odd plateful here, but the breakfast offering at the Savoia in Genoa was actually very good.
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Chie and Erika having breakfast.09:37:04
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One of the other rooms at the Savoia.
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The bar.09:56:59
Interesting coffee machine.09:57:42
Chie and Erika in the lobby.
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A pair of Atlantes.10:58:07
Via Garibaldi.11:08:16
Some impressive buildings along here.11:10:23
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Piazza de Ferrari.11:22:24
Me and Erika in Piazza de Ferrari.
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Erika took this picture, thus the necessity for Chie to lean down so much.11:23:38
The courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale.11:24:20
An impressive door knocker.11:35:23
The nicer looking side of the Palazzo Ducale.
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Farmacia del Ducale.11:45:31
The Porta Soprano, as seen from the inside of the city...11:46:39
...and the outside.11:58:20
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A quick espresso.12:07:19
San Lorenzo cathdral again I think.12:07:30
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Lunch at the Osteria di Vico Palla. This is the house wine, slightly sparkling.12:50:29
The bread board was quite impressive.12:55:12
Our starters. Fried things.12:55:18
Apparently a local speciality - either fried maize flour or fried chickpea flour, I forget.
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Mandilli (sort of lasagne sheets) with pesto.13:44:52
Outside Osteria di Vico Palla.13:50:18
A nice old crane.14:05:10
Soem yachts.
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In Genoa's aquarium now.
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Manatou?14:38:02
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Erika on my shoulders to look at the penguins.15:28:44
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Seals.17:33:09
After leaving the aquarium, another stroll around the streets of Genoa.
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San Lorenzo cathedral again.17:41:55
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On the way to Caffe Mangini.18:09:35
Mangini, another of Genoa's oldest cafes.18:18:37
Inside Caffe Mangini, where we stood at the bar, and oddly had a combination of small cakes and a Negroni.
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Can just about see the three of us in the mirror here.18:34:41
Outside Mangini.18:37:46
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I wonder if Proust looked here.18:39:20
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A nice courtyard, I forget which Palazzo this is.18:51:11
Via Garibaldi again.
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A sundial on the wall.18:58:59
Those Atlantes again.18:59:51
Erika doing la passagiata.19:34:57
Our hotel had a great pirate themed kids play area.
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...including a pirate ship!
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Il Giardino dei Pirati. Everything about that sounds excellent.19:45:16
The view from the bar on the top floor of our hotel. Sadly the weather wasn't up to much today, but I imagine on a nice day this must be a really pleasant spot to have a drink.19:46:04
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That's Genoa's main station.19:47:08
Chie and Erika on the sun loungers, minus the sun.19:50:27
A lemon tree.19:50:47
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For dinner we were feeling lazy, so just went to one of the restaurants attached to the hotel. Here's the unusual looking bread baskets. More of a bread bag really. The contents were quite tasty.20:31:25
Erika having her second pasta in Italy.20:31:30
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...and me having a dish which was somewhere between last night's dinner and today's lunch.
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Erika playing with an excellent sticker set Chie bougt in Japan for a trifling 100 yen - probably about 1 euro.21:04:48
Outside the hotel.21:04:56
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Erika getting ready for bed a bit earlier this evening.