Genoa

On Wednesday we spent most of the day travelling/waiting to travel and arrived in Genoa at 4pm. We were expecting a beachy town...which it really wasn't! Still eneded up being quite a cool place to be though. Our hostel was up in the hills, was a bit of an adventure getting there by bus. Roads are extremely narrow and bends are sharp. Scooters and cars are everywhere and go quite fast! But we arrived in 1 piece and the hostel was sweet, had a great view of the city.

For dinner we tried out this thing we'd heard about 'Appertivo' - buy a drink for €7 (each place has diff cost) and eat buffet style for 'free'. Drinks were very strong!! Food was yum, albeit a tad interesting! kinda cool to try some different things...not heaps of options like a 'normal' buffet, more finger food, breads, dips etc etc. Got our vege fix anyway...a night free of pizza!

After dinner we came across a culture festival down at the waterfront - not Italian! Cool to wander the stalls, have a few beers (Niki loves that you can drink on the streets here & beer is cheap from normal stores ...we're either finding a beer or finding a loo for him!) Saw part of an Italian music show thing which was great, very talented and the singing sounded amazing.

Thursday we went to the Acquarium in genoa - it's the largest in Europe. Expensive at €15 each but we thought it was worth it, saw lots of crazy fish and the standard sharks, dolphins etc. spent a good 3 hours there...was good to be away from a church or museum!