A last trip to the bathroom before leaving Le Grazie.
Filling up with diesel in Portovenere, the same place we had a wonderful dinner with Chloe for her 50 th birthday, many years ago!
We have also realised that we are being followed ( or we are following) Lord Byron through Europe. We met him in Chanakale where he apparently swam across the Dardenelles. Here in the Portovenere we find a Grotto Byron". A bit of research shows that he swam from Portovenere to Lerici. According to some, he swam this stretch a few times to meet two ladies who he kept in Lerici.
Even in Livorno there is reference to Byron. Percy Shelley sailed from Lerici to Livorno. On the return journey a sudden storm blew up and sunk the boat. There is an account by Edward Trelawney that the boat was rammed by some Italians because they thought that BYRON , who had been seducing their wives was on board. Going to be fun to freshen up,our knowledge of Byron and Shelley, for that matter.
The marina in Chiavara. 
What a fine surprise. The whole family Strikha from Ukraine come to visit us on the boat. Grandparents Valery and Svetlana. Alexy and wife Marina and the boys Anton and Valery.
Alexy and Marina on a HD motorbike and Valery and Svetlana with the boys in a VW pick-up truck.
We celebrated with prosecco on the boat and went later to a fine restaurant for Ligurian specialities.
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