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<\/a>Mirko our Airbnb host arrives on a motor scooter, we have already discovered there are thousands of them in Genoa. I tell him where I have parked the car and he is immediately concerned. Apparently we are in a residents only area and I say no problem I have been warching it and no cops have come near it even though there is a police station down the road. Mirko says no no and points at some cameras. In actual fact we could be up for tens of camera offences. It was always difficult to work out what was the legal speed in both England and France so who knows. It will be what it will be.<\/p>\nSo we follow Mirko and drop the car off at a park where it will stay till Saturday. He is not very happy with our two big suitcases. He asks if we can make one. Too difficult we say. We squeeze it all into his little Fiat and off we go into the pedestrian only zone and drag our cases to Vico della Rosa 4 where there are not so young ladies plying their trade along the street. We have to carry our cases up 6 levels. As much as I say I will come back down for the second case Mirko insists he carries one and really struggles. We do get there though and into our room which is really nice. I am getting the evil eye from my loved one saying what the hell have you brought me too, no sense of adventure. I must admit there were some very interesting smells along the streets some of which you could never fit even a small car down.<\/p>\n
Wednesday, another no rush day. We were enjoying ourselves. We headed out intending to go to a Science Museum but when we got there it was a Maritime Museum and the entry was more than we wanted to pay. We gave that a miss and wandered around a Movie Museum which we got into free from our hop on hop off bus ticket. <\/p>\n Coming out of there we came across a queue of people lining up for a boat. I asked if anyone spoke English and this little old lady said she did. When I asked where the boat was going (that she was lining up for) she said she didn’t know. We found it was a round trip to the next town up the coast so climbed aboard. The Genoa Port is one fantastically large port. It has this Kilometers long sea wall protecting it and the airport. It runs the whole distance between the two towns. Must have been a challenge to build.<\/p>\n It is well after six when we arrive back in Genoa. We find a place on the wharf and sit down for a beer and a beautiful fish and Chip dinner. Yummy.<\/p>\n<\/a>After settling in we head out to get our bearings and a bite to eat. <\/p>\n<\/a>Not too late too bed.<\/span>Tuesday morning and time to relax. A late breakfast and a catch up with the boys and friends on FaceTime while sitting on our little deck on the rooftop. It is mid day before we depart the house. We wander aimlessly through the streets of old town, some good smells some horrible, grab some lunch and good coffee at a little pastry place before waiting well over an hour for an open top tourist bus. After the hour we gave up and headed down to the waterfront where we had more confidence we would find one. We did, it turns out they knock off for lunch. We did one loop and decided to get off at The Natural History museum which was the furthest point away from town. However when they stopped at the Piazza de Farrari and the girl went and got Icecreams we decided to.get out there and walk, stopping along the way for a drink. We went to a shop in the same chain we had been to the night before. What had cost us 5 Euros then now cost us 8 Euros. Flasher street. By the time we got to the museum it was a bit late to go in and the last bus would be passing shortly so we headed down to the bus stop to catch that back into the centre. Found a place that had Happy Hour with free Pizza and Chips. That was tea sorted, we headed back to our apartment.<\/p>\n<\/a>It had a small bit of Weta stuff there but really quite disappointing, glad we didn’t have to pay. We headed to the Aquarium, we got in on the over 65 price of 21 Euros each. Gee I am starting to sound like a Scrooge but it is not hard to spend money. It pays not to convert to NZ. The Aquarium is fantastic, pretty special and well worth the money. They had huge variety of fish from all over the globe. It was really well laid out. I hope the photos do it justice.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n