I arrived in Genova on Monday 24 October and, on the following day, we had rain here in the city.
It was the first in 3 months and I didn’t think too much about it, other than trying to deal with the problem of never knowing how to dress against the weather here. There is this tricky humidity to contend with, one that sees me either over-dressed or under-dressed for the weather ... never correctly-dressed. Wednesday a heavy cold hit. I’m not sure that my inappropriate outdoor clothing wasn’t responsible.
Wednesday and news began filtering in about a massive dumping of rain over in Cinque Terre.
I won’t even begin to attempt to explain the story to those who haven’t heard of Cinque Terre because Alex explains all over on his blog, Italy Chronicles. But for those who asked about how it was here in Genova, knowing how close we are to Cinque Terre, there are two videos and an explanation over on Alex’s blog.
There were no problems here in Genova because the powerful downpour was fairly localised and truly terrible, as you will see.