2/4/2025 Bergeggi and Genoa, Italy

Greetings from the beautiful and sunny, but chilly 58 degree Italian Riviera!

View from our Airbnb. We’re way up the hill, spectacular place!

Firing up the trusty Citroen, we drove the six hours across France and back to Italy and the Mediterranean Sea.

FYI, tolls are brutal on Frances freeways, over $50 in tolls on the trip and fuel is $8 a gallon 😬

We are staying outside Genoa, Italy a place we’ve driven through before but have never visited! Let’s visit says TGC!

Genoa (Genova) is a very large city, the sixth largest in Italy! Over 1.5 million people live in the area. As it’s a very, very old city, the roads are difficult, but we decided to drive into the old town and park😬

Genoa is a huge shipping port, with Italian sailors exploring and trading around the world from the city! Christopher Columbus was born here.

Genoa also worked with Spain as a port and so it became a very wealthy city in the Middle Ages. The city’s architecture is quite beautiful and the old town, a little gritty as you can imagine in a seafarers city🤔

With the Citroen safely parked in a parking lot away we go!

Walking tour time says TGC😜

Genoa Old Town (Molo) is very compact, so we can’t be walking that much can we? Of course it’s hilly and cobblestones 🫣

Old town alley ways are very narrow, lots of street art!

It’s still early and the crowds are light. Big cruise ship port in Genoa, I bet it can get really crowded 😬

Cattedrale di San Lorenzo (Duomo di Genoa)

Focaccia is very, very popular in Genoa. There’s a Focaccia shop every couple of blocks.

Breakfast Focaccia, those French croissants are long gone!

Time to walk off the dough!

Ya, we’re back in Italy, scooters everywhere 🫣

Walking now, quickly!

Genoa, like lots of Northern Italian city’s has beautiful Porticos to walk under. All I know is you give TGC a smooth walking path like that, you better tighten the shoe laces😜

You know we love the central markets and Genoa’s is first rate!

Interesting setup, the market is circular with a food hall in the middle. Fun place.

Food hall, restaurants line the Hall, fun place.

Different Focaccia, not par baked long fermentation like other city’s in Italy. Fresh dough, cover with ingredients than bakes. It’s a little softer than we like. TGC says 6.8, Mike 7.2 🫣