Back in genova

After suffering it's greatest flood in memory, the city has bounced back. The flood impacted areas below the mountains as water from the mountains on which the new city is built rushed downward. More dangerous was the overflowing of its three rivers and the high sea levels that would not allow them empty. Saturday, a clean up began as teams of volunteers and civil protection crews began the cleaning up all the mud and removing all the damaged vehicles . When I landed here on Monday it all looked eerily normal. One photo is of Granarolo a hamlet above the city while the other is of the Fiumara district where the name itself denotes a wetland near a river. It is very clean. Here the river had little impact. The weather is naturally not as pleasant as in Sicily nor is the food, although the pesto, farinata and focaccia is excellent. The sea food is also very good. The bread..well that is another story. Sicilian bread is absolutely the best Italian bread in existence

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