Our 2013 visit to Genoa consisted of being lost driving across the big city, foolishly hoping that the "coast road" would carry us right through Italy's largest port and to the other side. It worked out, but not without some confused and anxious moments: Genoa was not designed for camping-cars, even small ones. We drove on to La Spezia and our visit to the Sink Terror. This time, Vicki had done a bit more reading on Genoa and found a campground right on the train line into town (with a short bus connection), and we decided we would spend a day in the city, taking in its arts and architecture, food and drink. Two days would have been better, even confining oneself to the old city. Genoa is big, old, rich, and interesting in most all the ways we like. I took 300+ pix in that one day and am now confronted with reducing that number to something manageable. I think I'll do it thematically, food, art, buildings, scenes, etc. Most important, of course, food...
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| Yes! |
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| In the pesto section of the museum gift shoppe |
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| Disappointingly under-flavored, we thought |
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| Moving right along: a beautifully interesting fine food store |
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| Family rule: never ever pass up a 200+ year old patisserie |
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| Pasticceria Liquoeria Mariscotti di Cavo; 1780 |
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| Best almond cookies ever. Period. |
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| More delights |
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| At the harbor, making sesame candy cookies |
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| A sophisticated food scene |
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| A fruit shoppe in an old palaccio with a marble entry-way |
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The first place we stopped for lunch was closing for renovation and had run out
of the items we wanted; so we moved on to another place, Pintori, Vicki's
choosing, which, we noticed later, was actually a Michelin-listed restaurant |
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| Her pesto pasta |
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Pintori specializes in Sardinian cuisine, so I figured, hey, why not the sardines,
of which I had a whole school...in the wonderful lemon/wine sauce they do in
Liguria; got my daily allotment of calcium in all the little bones, too |
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| Down to the subterranean WC |
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| Past a most interesting artists's studio (the waiter? owner?) |
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| Chipotle goes Italian |
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| Hopefully without the salmonella |
