PORTOFINO

Day64
Santa Margherita Ligure Portofino

We went to Portofino today...and it's gorgeous! No wonder Rod Steward has chosen this place to get married to Kelly Lancaster in June...it's SO pretty. Apparently Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton here too...ohhh....

And i tell ya....

IT IS PRETTY!

And..the castle that we climbed up to (more climbing!!! Are we getting fitter..YES!) had pictures in it of all the famous people that called Portofino their holiday spot!

The castle Castello Brown was sitting up there on the hill, in all it's glory beckoned us.....so we had to go up. And pay more entrace fees. Italy, already, it seems hits you with higher charges into things....more so than anymore we've been to anyway...!

In the castle there were Pics of Liz Taylor and Eddie Fisher (she didn't just bring Burt here obviously...but then she WAS married 8 times!) gracing the rooms..as did Earnest Hemingway, Walt Disney, John Wayne, Winston Churhhill, Clarke Gable, Prince Rainer and Grace Kelly with kids...and even King Hussein as a boy....far out....pics of all the famous...heaps more too!

Was interesting looking at all the pics....and there was an artist in residence too....Corrado Cohen, who was painting on old maps. Clever. And effective too. We would have bought one if we could carry it or think of a way to post it back...but as it is....finding post offices has been a nightmare.


After Portofino...we went back to Santa Margherita and headed out.....to FLORENCE.........

Gosh. I LOVE ITALY!

The home of my children's ancestors ;-)