Camogli, Italy

If pictures could transmit smell, you’d be enjoying the fragrance of fish right now. I predict, that will be the next big invention: open a computer file with a picture of a fishing village and a tiny door opens on your laptop and you’ll smell fish.

Yes, I am in Camogli in the northern province of Genoa - Italy at its finest. It can’t get more picturesque. Take pictures in any direction and you’ll see fishing boats, tourists, beautifully painted houses, tourists, a quaint church, tourists and more tourists…and flowers. Everybody loves flowers around here, even the tourists.

By the way, Camogli (casa delle mogli) means “House of Wives” (mogli = wives), referring to the fact that the men were out at sea while their wives did the laundry at home. The town used to be called “City of a Thousand White Sails”. I like that a lot better.