Kilometres walked : 13.4

Monday 9th May, 2023.

Where does it end? Spending the day wandering around the streets of Genoa today that was exactly what we were thinking about the rows and rows of opulent and amazing architecture. Seriously it just doesn’t stop. From one building to the next we stopped and gazed up and looked at each other and just said what the!!! And of course took hundreds of photographs. Unfortunately the photos do not do the buildings justice. They are so big and so close together it’s hard to get back far enough to properly look at them let alone take a decent photo of them. The morning part of our walk took us up around some of the residential areas looking over the old city. I just love how the Italians turn big concrete block buildings into some kind of wonderful. Some have frescos painted on them, others have beautiful ornate plaster added and of course don’t forget the shutters and the little balconies. They may have to live close together (well almost on top of each other) but at least they get to look at beauty all around them.

After lunch we stuck to the streets close to the apartment and found just as much wow.

It’s such a sensory overload yet absolutely fabulous to see. And this is only a small portion of it. There are literally streets and streets of this. Once again we are in awe of the Italians in the grand way that they achieve everything.