North to Spezia and Cinque Terre Italy
June 14 -23, 2013 It was good to be back on Alcheringa again after our foray around Tuscany and Friday was spent getting a few jobs done and on the ever painful bag drag around the supermarket to provision the boat for the next stage of our Italian adventure. We got underway on Saturday morning to sail north to the Golfo di La Spezia but instead of taking the direct, offshore route we elected to sail closer in along the coast for the more scenic route It added about five miles to our course but we could afford the extra hour. We found there were many beaches along this stretch of coast. We have never seen so many beach umbrellas and deck chairs in our lives. Someone at the Moby ferry company has a sense of adventure when it comes to paint schemes. There all different and all wild. Between the ferries and cruise ships we bounced around with a fair bit of wake in the marina at Livorno. We ran along the coast as far as Carrara , where we’d hoped to get a good...
