

The Italian Riviera or Ligurian coast curves between France’s Côte d’Azur and Tuscany. We arrived in the small seaside town of Arenzano yesterday afternoon after stopping for our picnic lunch in Santa Margherita Ligure.
It was lovely to soak our feet in the cold Mediterranean of Arenzano beach, listening to the roar of the waves. Much else in this small town is quiet. Too early for the summer visitors, the piazzas are filled mainly with small boys playing football and people of all ages doing their shopping after the stillness of siesta time.

Oh we are proper playgirls of the Western world, aren’t we? The Italian Riviera if you please! Did you pass Michael Caine in a van full of gold teetering on the brink of a steep cliff saying: “I think I’ve got an idea …” Meanwhile I sit here in cold, wet Edinburgh thanking the Universe I don’t have to put up with such privations as blue skies, sunshine, the Mediterranean, beautiful churches and Renaissance art. How DO you cope?
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