July 13: Chiavari and Portafino

This morning I woke up with the feeling I had no clue where I was was at. I´m surprised I hadn´t had that feeling more often on this trip. Joe explored the town of Chiavari (I found out the name), while I got back on the computer to find us a room for that evening. I had no luck so we decided to stay one more night and explore where we were at. We looked at a map and realized we were close to Portafino. I didn´t know much about Portafino except that we stayed at the Portafino Hotel in Universal Studios Orlando. Well, that was good enough for us! We took the train to Santa Margherita and got on a boat for the short ride to Portafino. When we got into port, we realized how well Universal Studios emulated the real thing. It was a really cute village. There wasn´t alot to it so we did a little perusing and had lunch by the water. The lunch was very good. We both had pasta with seafood. Yum, yum! After lunch we headed back to Santa Margherita. This was a bit larger than Portafino, so we walked around a bit and I had an excellent gelato (not my first one in Italy), then we went back to the hotel. I was very disappointed at first about the last couple of days being in a strange town I didn´t want to be in, however, today ended up being a pretty nice day.