Livorno is a collection of little linked canals and parks. Big piazzas and cars that seem to go wherever they want without heeding directions. We started out taking a wrong turning and ending up on the opposite side of one of the canals and had to find a way of crossing back.
Like a lot of these small towns, we had been here before and had definite places we wanted to see again.
Here are some of them:
- Canals. Lots of canals, little narrow ones mainly with bridges every few metres.
- More Humming Bird Hawk Moths
- We finally reached the park we were looking for, only to find the gates were locked and padlocked.
- A helpful dog-walker indicated to us by hand signals and broken English that we were trying to get into a dog walking area and had to go further along to find the pedestrian gate.
- Found the proper gate and the pond with the terrapins. I was so glad they were still there.
- We saw two young sisters (?) with their mother (?) just playing in the sunshine, until a fight broke out between them. Neither of us understood what mum was saying, but we got the gist of it!
- Eventually peace reigned again.
- I’ll remember the light shining through the avenues of trees.
- That night we had elephant towel animals on our bed.
We said goodbye to Livorno in the evening and sailed off to Cannes.