The Italian Riviera- Its better if you have a boat.

Yesterday was Saturday and John and I decided to go and check out the Italian Riviera. We took the A6 south to Savona. Didn't know what was there, just went for it. A lot of the bigger places are not too pretty but Savona had some nice bits. A long beach and a biiiiig castle. Italians are very economical with their beaches...every sqaure inch is used by folk and umbrellas, not nice if you ask me. The Castle was big and castle like on the sea. Y'know, a castle. Stone, walls, angry looking building? After that we drove along the coast road which was nice. Arrived at a town called Varazza which was flash and we pulled into a big marina. Pics below. Some mega SCHWEEEET yachts and the water front had a load of v nice bars and restaurants and gelaterias. Got a nice lunch of garlic, prawn, and tomato linguini. I enjoyed it loads, as you can imagine...got an icecream too. Hehehe. Continied along the coast road nearly to Genova and headed north again via Alessandria and Asti. After that we turned off the auto strada to get a bit lost, which we duely did. Buy this time the mother of all thunderstorms set in and we headed back to Torino and beer, a fair bit of it actually. Look at the pics and enjoy.