Today is our penultimate day in Rapallo so there wasn't very much planned
to do: mainly packing and buying a few presents. We had for lunch once again pizza bianca tonno e cipalle: we didn't even have to order as the waiter already knew what we wanted. I
didn't think that there would be anything to write about today - in fact, I
had packed my computer and all its attending cables - but still ....
At the witching hour of 6 pm, I went out for a long walk along the
promenade. There was a congregation of policemen near the ticket office
for the ferry to Santa Margherita/Portofino that caused me to raise my
eyebrows; when I looked to my right, on 'the restaurant side', there was a
political rally being held at the Chiosco della Musica. Trouble in
paradise: this is the first expression of anything to do with Israel and
Gaza on this trip. The sign in the middle which can't easily be read in
this photo reads
Pace per Gaza <undecipherable> Medio Oriente, obviously
meaning Peace for Gaza and the Middle East.
I carried on walking on the promenade, past the furthest part of where the
market was, when I chanced upon a huge statue of Christopher Columbus, much
larger and more impressive than the statue in Santa Margherita Ligure.
Further on, I encountered a group of women dancing - presumably some form
of exercise group. Even further along, I came across an old church that is
completely hidden from our side of the bay, and finally took a picture of a
large house that is clearly visible from our side.
Then I walked back, by which time the rally had almost dispersed.
Tomorrow we leave the hotel, take a train to Milano Centrale, have lunch, then take another train to Malpensa airport. Our flight is supposed to leave at 19:45, so obviously there will be no blog tomorrow. Not only that, the next one will be blog #2000, an auspicious number.
This day in blog history:
| Title | Tags | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Andrew Keeling | Nick Drake, King Crimson, Andrew Keeling | |
| 52 | Busy busy busy | Programming, Stevie Wonder, Teeth | |
| 631 | The North Star Grassman | MIDI, Sandy Denny | |
| 756 | Importing a csv file into a multi-sheet workbook with automation | Programming, Delphi, Office automation | |
| 1071 | Exchanging warning and error messages in Priority | Priority tips | |
| 1423 | The next stage in the aldosterone saga | Health, Blood pressure, Aldosterone |
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