in italy and on the sea again

after a night with  5 degrees, it stayed like that until genova. cold, grey clouds, drizzly rain but again a good, well maintained autostrada along bologna, modena. parma and piacenza. the last 60 km were dry and the sun started to come. when we at last (just that part of the road that entered genova that we had to go, was blocked by an accident!) arrived at the port of genova it was still cold but 11 degrees with a nearly clear sky.

it was the first time that we traveled this road from piacenza to genova, and it was very nice although a bit curvy at the end, because the road was following a river (scrivia); and we had happily not chosen the road from parma to la spezia, we saw that it was snowing overthere!

after port controls and check-in we were on a parking lot filled with cars, loaded for tanger. and we heared that our boat was delayed (I suppose the same storm as we had yesterday had troubled our next ferry). so we (approx. 15 cars) were traveling together with hundreds of other cars and vans going to marrocco !

so a bit cold, under the light of a nearly full moon, between many dark coloured people we sit waiting for the arrival of our boat the Excellent from Grande Navi Veloci.

after some discussions at the reception (the ticket office had not given us a dog-friendly cabin and that had to be changed) and the long waiting and a not working key and a cold cabin, we finally set down in our cabin when the boat left genova shortly after mid-night (4 hours later then scedule!).