Santa Margherita Italian resort

November 18, 2013 by David Herd

Glimpses of the Mediterranean.

Santa Margherita Italian resort near Portofino, if you walk from Santa Margherita you will be amazed by the beautiful homes and wonderful views of the Mediterranean sea. It only takes an hour or so and is quite spectacular.

The path between the two towns

A delightful one hour walk between Santa Margherita & Portofino.

Santa Margherita Italian resort

Hotels opposite the beach.

Many luxury hotels here

As you can see it is the “off season” with no tourists to be seen. 🙂

Overlooking the Mediterranean

Many beautiful homes overlook the sea.

Wonderful narrow walkways

Wonderful narrow lanes thread through the village.

Santa Margherita Italian resort

Lots of restaurants to choose from here.

So many beautiful homes

Santa Margherita Ligure is a fair-sized town; large enough not to seem smothered by the tourism which has been an integral part of the town’s existence for decades. The harbor mainly caters for luxury yachts, but the town is also home to a small fishing fleet which can be seen unloading opposite the morning fish market. There are wide ranges of hotels and restaurants, and many good day trips to make if you get tired of wandering along the laid back seafront.

Pebbles on the beach

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Sunbathing on the rocks.

Grab yourself a comfortable rock. 🙂

Relaxing on the rocks in Santa Margherita.

I wonder if there is room on that towel for me? 🙂

Lido Palace

The Lido Palace is in the top location.

This guy loves pasta & pizza.

But like me hates exercise.

Terrific pizza

They really know how to make pizza in Italy.

Santa Margherita Italian resort, ferry between the towns.

I walked to Portofino & caught the ferry back.

The Mediterraneo Hotel

My hotel offered good price and excellent restaurant. For the budget minded like myself it makes more sense to stay in Santa Margherita and visit Portofino on foot or by ferry. The Lido Palace is on the beach if you want to go upmarket, my hotel was one block back and reasonable priced, with free car parking,

The Mediterraneo.

A very good restaurant here that seems to specialise in home cooked style food.

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Author: David Herd

My history, particularly over the last 30 years is dominated by overseas travel. I sold my home in Australia October 20th 2011 and have have been living in Thailand since then. I don’t know where the time has gone? It seems like you go to sleep one night, wake up the next morning, and 20 years have flashed by. Not sure how many years I have left, however I have enjoyed a wonderful charmed life, and if it all ended today I would leave this world with no regrets. I was born in Sydney halfway through the last century, started my travels in the 60s with the usual U.K. Europe adventure at the age of 20, back to Australia and worked in Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide in Sales & Marketing with multinational companies including Sanyo, Canon & Remington. Engaged to be married 3 times and never quite made it to the alter, finally realized by the mid 90s I was not cut out for "long term relationships" so I moved to the Gold Coast in Queensland in January 1987, worked for a couple of banks as a Financial Planner, I took a year off work in 1998 to travel and never went back to full time work again, after 25 fun filled years on the Coast I packed up and moved to Thailand. What is the purpose of this blog? Well I really want to use it to record my travel experiences & to display my photographs, give and receive travel tips, comment on places I visit, restaurants I eat in and use it to replace the autobiography I intended to write, apart from all that it helps me fill in my day. :) I moved to Thailand mainly because I wanted to keep travelling while my health allowed me to, there are huge advantages being closer to all the places I want to visit. Cost of living in Thailand is around 35% of the cost in Australia, plus flights are 50% cheaper because you are much closer to everywhere. ???? Consequently I am able to travel to many more places compared to living in Australia. Having said all that, it is & has always been my intention to return to Australia when my travelling is finished, I predict this will happen around 2021.