We decided to drive down the coast into Liguria, on the Italian side. Bit of a road trip.
Our first stop was San Remo, which as you will most likely know (I, of course, didn't) is famous for it's music festival. It also has a Casino, and cheap coffee (we paid 90 cents here compared to over 3 euros the day before on the French side).
From here, we carried on to Imperia, which is the 4th biggest city on the Italian Riviera. It has a charming old town sitting on a hill (Porto Maurizio), and seemed less touristy than San Remo.
From here we drove swiftly on to Cerva, a lovely little seaside town perched on its hill (as they often are, on both sides of the border of the Riviera, it seems). Very nice indeed, the old town, with a nice church right at the top of the town. And it didn't seem all that touristy compared to some of the other "lovely villages" on the Riviera.
From here we drove back towards France, stopping in Bussana Vecchia. A very interesting town, basically it was devastated by an earthquake at the end of the 19th century (according to our guide book there was only one survivor, who ended up inventing the ice cream cone?? Information that is contradicted by some investigation on the web later on - but it's a good story eh?). So anyway, since then it has been taken over by some artists and kind of restored. It's a pretty cool place, kind of like a semi-inhabited ghost town. And the drive there was, er, interesting (put it like this, in a sense the place is protected from mass-tourism because there would be no way to get a bus up there!).
Our first stop was San Remo, which as you will most likely know (I, of course, didn't) is famous for it's music festival. It also has a Casino, and cheap coffee (we paid 90 cents here compared to over 3 euros the day before on the French side).
From here, we carried on to Imperia, which is the 4th biggest city on the Italian Riviera. It has a charming old town sitting on a hill (Porto Maurizio), and seemed less touristy than San Remo.
From here we drove swiftly on to Cerva, a lovely little seaside town perched on its hill (as they often are, on both sides of the border of the Riviera, it seems). Very nice indeed, the old town, with a nice church right at the top of the town. And it didn't seem all that touristy compared to some of the other "lovely villages" on the Riviera.
From here we drove back towards France, stopping in Bussana Vecchia. A very interesting town, basically it was devastated by an earthquake at the end of the 19th century (according to our guide book there was only one survivor, who ended up inventing the ice cream cone?? Information that is contradicted by some investigation on the web later on - but it's a good story eh?). So anyway, since then it has been taken over by some artists and kind of restored. It's a pretty cool place, kind of like a semi-inhabited ghost town. And the drive there was, er, interesting (put it like this, in a sense the place is protected from mass-tourism because there would be no way to get a bus up there!).
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