Italy Day 10 & 11: Cinque Terre to Genoa, Genoa to Home

We got up on Day 10, checked out of our hotel at La Spezia, and trotted back up to the train station to take the train to Genoa.

When we booked our hotels, we tried to find one in Genoa that would be ulta-close to the airport, since our flight was to leave at 7am on Day 11.  We just wanted to relax on our last day, and have an easy access to the airport for the next morning. What we didn’t really count on was that Genoa wasn’t that great of a place to visit.

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Italy Day 9: The Cinque Terre – American Beach Bum Edition

There isn’t much to say about day 9, because we did absolutely NOTHING on this day!  This was the ‘relaxation’ day.  This was the day we were going to hang out by the Mediterranean sea and just veg!

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Italy Day 4: Villa Borghese

We woke up a little later on Day 4 and were quite sore from all the walking during Day 3 and the Vatican, but we were NOT to be stopped! Day four was sort of our wildcard day – we weren’t sure what we wanted to do.  Paulo recommended that we take in the Villa Borghese and the Borghese Gallery – a PERFECT decision and a PERFECT day!

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