Travel Review of Portofino, Italy: A Ghostly Tale

I recently wrote two articles that dealt with ghostly going's on in places I have visited but neither one happened to me personally, they were just legends and stories told by historians and passed down over the centuries....This little tale is the exception! It's just a little occurrence but scared me silly while we were on road trip through southern France and Italy.

Portofino, Italy is a walker's delight because cars are not allowed in the town itself but can be a bit inconvenient when first arriving since we had to leave our little Fiat in a car park quite a walk away from where we were staying. They did send someone to help with our luggage though...Our hotel was located right on the harbor in a perfect location but it was quite a schlep so we only brought the bare necessities we would need for the two nights we had planned on being there, leaving the rest in the car... thank goodness we had rented a car with a trunk so our other belongings were not in clear view in the backseat....something we had learned the hard way, years earlier, in Rome, but that's another story altogether.

Our hotel had quite a long history since once it been the home of some very wealthy Italians going back centuries, each time it was handed down the stories went with it....Eventually it was converted into a quaint hotel and we felt lucky to book a room for a pretty fair price during one of their high seasons... we weren't disappointed since the hotel was very attractive and had quite a lot charm and flavor along with friendliness of those running the place.

Portofino is a tiny port town on the Ligurian coast, also known as the Italian Riviera, the name means "Pearl of the world" and it is considered to be an extremely colorful and romantic towns....with it's pastel colored buildings, surrounded by the shimmering aquamarine Mediterranean sea, lapping at it's doorstep in one direction, the hills of the Maritime alps in the other, it just oozes charm and ambiance with a slightly funky flavor.