FUN-travel: La Spezia to Portoferraio, Island of Elba, Italy – Day 7 – Seabourn Cruise
August 8, 2012 by Susan Clarke
Trip Day 24 – Cruise Day 7 – Thursday, August 2 – Portoferraio, Island of Elba, Italy
Napoleon’s Fountain
What I LIKE
- only 4 hr tour
- leave @ 9:30
- 1st stop – Villa San Martino – summer residence of Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on Elba – sits half way up the hill – clear view of the harbor in distance – able to walk through and see rooms with furniture & one filled with fanciful Egyptian frescos
- 2nd stop – Porto Azzuro – charming fishing village
- Locman Watches are made on Elba & I have one
- back to ship in time for lunch of fresh shrimp scampi cooked table side
- walk through town – find bigger Locman Watch store
- buy a new watch band & it makes it look brand new!
- dinner with 8 ship mates in the main dining room
What I DON’T LIKE
- can’t remember anything
FF (FUN-fact) – Elba is the largest of a scatter of islands know as the Tuscan archipelago off the west coast of Italy – 16 miles long and 3 miles wide.