Santa Margherita is a tender port, this is because the port itself it a tiny fishing village, however it does have a bay large enough for s hip the size of Ventura to anchor. So we took the tender boats to the shore. Today we are booked on our first excursion, a walking tour of Portofino. To get to the secluded bay of Portofino, it’s just a short ferry ride.
Portofino itself is really quite beautiful and should be on anyones list of must see places. In fact Rod Stewart was married at the Castle on the hill (Browns Castle) and Portofino also featured as part of the wedding celebrations of Wayne Rooney.
Once ashore, we started our walking tour, which took us up a steep incline away from the port and up past Browns Castle and onto the small church that sits up on the hill. Needless to say, walking back was much easier and after a short ferry and tender back to the ship a glass of wine and lunch were very welcomed.
Entertainment varied tonight, your choices, apart from the bands, were a talk by Lord Sebastian Coe, Comedy Club and Test Ventura. We went for the latter and it was indeed very interesting. Each audience member had a small hand held keypad. Questions were then projected up onto the big screen and you pressed your answer on the keypad, A, B, C, D etc. The keypad then acted like a remote control, sending the answers back to a computer, at the end of each round, scores were displayed on the big screen. Then the winner of each of 2 heats would take part in the final later that week, to win a mini cruise later in the year. We came a very close second.
Tomorrow we dock in Civitavecchia, which is the port for Rome.
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