Capodanno in Liguria

Sunday we decided spontaneously to make a trip for new years. We thought that Ginna Nanina was at Milano for San Silvestro but instead she went to Genova. Therefore we decided to go down to Genova. It's only 2 to 3 hours from here, depending on the traffic. In fact, it is much closer than Amsterdam is to Münster, which was a strange thought for me somehow.

Well, we fed the cat and left him all by himself in the apartment- which isn't much of a problem as in Ticino at midnight there are no fireworks. We went to Como then took the A7 Milano-Genova, which crosses all of the Pianura Padana, the industrial North of Italy which in winter seems so much like Germany!!! After Milano we got the thickest of fog, you could only see a couple of trees and that was that.

Then we reached the mountains near Genova. The landscape changed and there were more and more olive trees and palms. (Here we got a lot of them but around Milano the vegetation is a lot more like it is in Germany.) After about a gazillion of tunnels we finally reached the Mediterranean Sea! It was soooooo beautiful! We went down on the beach at Recco S. to watch the sunset and take a couple of fotos (they are all in the album).

Then we went down along the coast until we reached Rapallo where we found a one star hotel that was actually closed but we got a room anyway. It was really an ok room with two beds and a small bathroom. We went for a long walk "lungomare" (along the sea) and around midnight returned in piazza to celebrate. It was awesome celebrating near the sea. It was also much warmer (9-11 degrees Celsius)!