Rapallo & Santa Margherita Ligure 🇮🇹 THE ITALIAN RIVIERA IS BEAUTIFUL 

You can read my full guide to the best towns to add to your Italian Riviera itinerary in this article: www.eternal-expat.com/2022/04/26/italian-riviera-cities-ligurian-riviera/

Wow! This is a beautiful series of experience! My goodness, keep it comin!

RAPALLO ,S.MARCHERITA LIGURE, PORTOFINO 👌🙋‍♀️🤗❣🥰

I love Italy 🇮🇹

Hi Laura thanks for sharing all this beautiful places on the Italian Riviera! Love the beaches views! Enjoy your travels!

Thank you, Laura, for your beautiful informative videos. I've watched your Genoa video and have decided to stay in Rapallo from Genoa. Looks great, I will be there in mid-September. I have been to Monterosso five years ago but wouldn't mind a quick trip back. Rapallo looks like a good base to explore from!

Ciao da Rapallo!😄

The 2 yrs I lived in Rome, SML. I should have ventured out more. Ill have to put this on my to do list.

Hi Laura thanks to visit Rapallo and our beautiful places near…. Next time i suggest you to try Sole 1936 Retaurant near the Castello of Rapallo they serve amazing fish dishes and you can also try aperitivo with a lot of fish tapas! Best regards

Esiste anche la Riviera di Ponente in Liguria, non solo la Riviera di Levante.

I stayed in st marguerita, ten y a go. Probably right, I saw expensive stores, and people with money. I was not one of them, we stayed in a nice placed owned by a lady, a big room with bathroom outside , but a lavatory inside, was nice. But I will check rápalo next time

Exactly!!!! There is not pagana, but a village so called San Michele of Pagana. No Maurizio? Then there is St Moritz in Switzerland. No mychele? There is the tower of Pagana's San Michele. J have just to say another important thing to Laura. In Rapallo there is a beautiful river. Yes, yes yes, that is an amazing river. First to get the harbour, you have to manage on the river. In few words: three little steps in the angle: the tobacco angle. In any case Laura is very fast and she is magically on the top of Portofino. What about that old song J love Portofino?

Hi Laura! Greetings from Florence

I stayed in that place, awawsome deal, close to train station..there is a restaurant own by pescatores, fishing peopl, sea food, delicious, locals go there, is cheap...can’t remember name, found it on let’s go Italy guide...is knows by the locals

Bello vedere la mia liguria grazie ps sei molto carina ciao

Visit val Trebbia!

Nice video! It's a pity though that, like you said, "Riviera" makes one think about the French Riviera (that the French call côte d'Azur) rather than about "The Riviera", in Liguria (that the French themselves call this way. source: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-02YhfJZiHEA.html, this guy makes really good videos to learn French and more). Also because "the Riviera" is split in riviera di Levante and di Ponente, and they are quite different from one another.

It seems bigger than "Come Ugly"....

How do you stay so slim with all those carbs? 🤣🍕

My grandparents went on holiday back in the 50s and to this day my family still goes to the same place. The town is called Cavi Borgo (it’s 30min from Rapallo) Almost every year, it feels like coming home when I’m there. We know generations and my son is the fourth generation of my family who is loving it there. Cavi Borgo is not touristy and that makes it the best place! And yes that whole area is beautiful! I’m from the Netherlands by they way😁

Laura! I'm so happy you are spending some great time in Rapallo and Santa Margherita! I live in Rapallo, it's an amazing place! And you've found probably the best season of the year to travel here, less crowdy and the weather is just warm and good enough! Just a little thing, the place between Santa Margherita and Rapallo is not called "Bagni Pagana" but "San Michele di Pagana" ;-) Have you been to Paraggi? Half way between Santa Margherita and Portofino! Have a great great time in our region :-)

STONES versus SAND ! Completely agree. Favorite stony beaches: Loreto, Baja Sur ( once a year with friends who live there) the Hippie Beach east of Akrotiri, Southern end of Thera/Santorini; and now, apparently, where YOU are. This was great. I send your videos to EVERYONE as THE way to travel. Light and breezy, and learn some language everywhere. Grazie mille.

Best bakery in Rapallo to have focaccia is "vivaldi"

Thank you. Exactly the info/comparison I was looking for. Great, safe travels to you!

love your way to share feelings and impress; beautiful and nice tour guide!

Am staying there in July😊I am staying at Hotel Stella...that is my other name Stella😊.

What makes you think we are interested in seeing your face all the time, when you are in such a beautiful place?

Hi Laura, thanks for talking about my town, but I have to make a small note: it's not "Bagni Pagana" but "San Michele di Pagana". "Bagni Pagana" is the name of one of the local bathing establishments, not the bay...

Thank you so much for the beautiful video!! I can’t wait to see the beautiful places!

hi we have been watching your travels in genoa going to rapallo going to portofino very informative and fun to watch. may we ask hows the water temperature in april when you have visited? we will be visiting genoa this coming april with our children thank you

Hi! Rapallo is my favorite city! I’ ve just buied a beautiful house here! Magic is everywhere here!👍🏻

@8:50 I hear you... I actually prefer pebbled beach than sand.... lived in Hawaii and I actually prefer the Mediterranean... Monterosso Al Mare is my fave... :)

Great series on Italy :) Will you be doing more beyond the Riveria? Thanks from Sydney Australia x

Loving your videos, Laura. Keep ‘em coming 😊

I could sit in a waterfront cafe in Rapallo all day........oh almost did!! lol My route on first trip to Italy was fly into Milan, drive to Genoa, Rapallo, Pisa, Tuscan vineyard stay, Sienna, Rome.

Thank you so much for posting this video, what a wonderful place!

It depends on preference, I hate sand, "unfortunately" where I live (Rome) it's almost only sand (there are some places with rocks but are not so nice), not to mention the crowdedness. However, there is plenty of choice in Italy, there are the super-equipped sandy beaches on the Adriatic Riviera (Riccione, Rimini etc), the (always sandy) more "wild" beaches going down to south (I recommend Salento and Gargano in Puglia, which also have rocks). Instead in the part of the Tyrrhenian Sea (that in video), there are the (sandy) beaches in Tuscany, from Viareggio and Forte Dei Marmi (cities in some ways similar to Riccione and Rimini, although with less young people, I dare say are more for families), to go south then to Lazio, Campania and Calabria (all regions with sand but also with rocks, as the famous Amalfi Coast). Of course we cannot forget the islands, the two big (Sardinia and Sicily, which have wonderful places for all tastes) and all the small islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, my recommendation being Ponza (Lazio), of course Ischia and the wonderful Capri (best to go there in the low season, June or September), last but no least the Aeolian and the Egadi (in Sicily). Ok, finished my publicity to my country (I don't even know why I wrote this long comment with my laughable English honestly), congratulations on the video, I hope you enjoyed your stay in Italy (we have many flaws but the country is gorgeous), ciao.

Thank you for video. I live in Milan and i have the holydays home in Rapallo. Welcome in italy and see you soon

Hi Laura, we loved your video so much we decided to include these in our upcoming Italy trip :). we just wanted to know if it is possible to cover Santa Margherita Ligure, Portofino and Rapallo in a day from Miln? we shall be catching the 8.15 train from milan . we are 30s couple with our 3 yr old son. Also if feasible how do we travel between portofino and rapallo amd then Santa Margherita?

Your video is soooo good ! Thank you for all the information, it helped me a lot !

We have been here on our way to Portofino, very beautiful and perfect weather, thanks for posting this, love Italy. ❤

Hi, thank you very much for your videos about Italy, they are fantastic :) I am wondering what kind of suitcase do you use while travelling on Riviera? If you use public transport then it is better to have not very big bag for travelling. But on the other hand if you travel many days, then you need many clothes :) I also plan to travel in Italy by public transport(trains), and I am thinking what kind of laggage to take on a trip :)

Hi, I'm thinking of going to Genoa and some of the coastal towns next late-April. Just guessing from the video but what was the weather like? Low 10-20 celsius? I heard some towns are really dead in the winter and some restaurants/cafes close so I'm hoping April would be a good time to visit before the peak summer season.

Hi Laura, did you use your phone to film around the places you visited?

Thanks Laura cinque terre is a place I would love to visit with my wife and rapolla and the others you showed look lovely too now I know some things about the area I might just book up next year much appreciated

Something in me says this woman is from the Netherlands i heart that because i speak that language and living there

I was there in 1981for 3 weeks when I was in the Navy

Very nice vlog 😉👍

Yet another fantastic video! Keep up the great work. Thanks.

You forgot the most important attraction Casa Massone

Is rápalo, right there by the train?

It was very nice, it didn't look hot enough to be in a bathing suit on the gravel. Nice background music. They shouldn't care if you pronounce words like in Spanish. In Italy, every 30 minutes you travel they likely change to a different dialect.

Hello Laura, I will be in Portofino next month (October), thanks for the tips regarding the restaurants in Rapallo near the train station. I'm hoping the weather is favorable.

It’s different place , nice river

Hi Laura, thanks so much for this detailed video on the Italian Riviera. Travelling with small children we couldn't settle on the right location. Stumbled upon your video and the explanations you gave on the various towns were very crucial in helping to decide on Rapallo as our base to explore the region from. We have just returned with many fantastic memories. grazie mille

we're getting Solar Power☀️ from you!! Grazie for sharing all the happy things!

sorry but these places are known for over 200 years nothing new here ahahah

I go to SML most summers and its mental.. Checkout Paraggi beach for lunch - 3 km up the road, probably the best lunch spot on the riviera. If you have time, make your way to Lerici - the place to be without tourists.

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Thank you Laura, for bringing me back to Santa Margherita!

Hii! Do you know the exact location at 6:17?

How much time you spent here in Liguria?

Parliamo anche della periferia di Rapallo completamente abbandonata alla sporcizia

you look like the women I dated in the Navy. sad ending to that relationship went to sea came back to Norfolk. and I was dump 🥴