{"id":2790,"date":"2015-07-17T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2015-07-17T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:38:34","slug":"boat-spam-in-genoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"Boat Spam in Genoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is for the sailors, who read this blog. \u00a0I wanted to call it boat p orn but James said that might be unwise. \u00a0We have been in two ports Viareggio,Tuscany and Genoa. This is boat building territory, La Spezia is in between these two ports and another boat builder’s paradise.<\/p>\n

While we were there we saw this boat. We thought Frosty loves sailing in this part of the world. He can work two jobs and buy this boat, then we will visit him. I am not sure even a big lottery win would help.<\/p>\n

\"Just<\/a>
Just the boat for Frosty and his friends: Rosehearty 56 metres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Viareggio looks like a carnival town, lots of fun fair rides for the children and a beach covered with umbrella and deck chairs for the family. Italian is spoken here and sometimes a bit of German. There was a Bubble man, whose photo I can’t show you because he was surrounded by children. But here is one of his bubbles in the sunset sky of Viareggio.<\/p>\n

\"Gigantic<\/a>
Gigantic Bubbles – Viareggio, port of Lucca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We left early the next morning and there were dozens of fisherman on every surface of the three moles that make this a protected harbour.<\/p>\n

More eye-candy on the way to Genoa.<\/p>\n

\"Rosehearty,<\/a>
Another 56 metre leisure craft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, we reached Genoa and sailed into a huge bay, past the Costa Concordia being dismantled, warehouses in various states of ruin but handsome nonetheless.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>
View of old and new Genoa from the boat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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But have I finished with my boat spam yet? Decidedly not, here is the beauty just moored across the channel from Mercier at the Marina Mole Vecchio. The staff here are great, especially considering Mercier is the same size as this yacht’s bow.<\/p>\n

\"Marina<\/a>
Marina Mole Vecchio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More on Genoa the town later, but I had to thank my sailing friends for following Sailing Azure Seas and boat spam seemed the best way to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one is for the sailors, who read this blog. \u00a0I wanted to call it boat p orn but James said that might be unwise. \u00a0We have been in two ports Viareggio,Tuscany and Genoa. This is boat building territory, La Spezia is in between these two ports and another boat builder’s paradise. While we were … Continue reading Boat Spam in Genoa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,26,73,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-boats","category-italy","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-J0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}