Sestri Levante

We cleared out of Bogliasco following a pocket earth route, which turned out to be a back route more suitable for unladen mountain bikes powered by fit youngsters, so I now mistrust the pocket earth routes unless they can be backed up by a map with heights.
After we managed to get off that route, we just followed the main road and trusted the Italian drivers to miss us, which turned out to be a better option, because although it was pretty hilly, at least it was rideable.
On the way up the last hill (not that we knew it) Brian and Margaret, in a motor home on a pull off, noticed how slow we were going and got us in for a much appreciated cup of tea. Brian hospitably offered to put the bikes on the back and take us in to Sestri, but for some reason I declined, and we continued on to Chiavarra, short of Sestri, but there was a camping area, and we were anticipating more hills, so we stopped there. The first photo is looking back towards Bosciaglo, the Ligurian sea, on the way to Sestri Levante.
Next morning we carried on, just 10 k's of flat road saw us in Sestri. We camped at another sea-oriented site, poor, everything run down, they obviously get their money without trying too hard. We spent a nice day there, sight seeing, the second picture shows the beach there. You can see that although the sand is grey, it is substantially a beach.
Next day we set off again with one of our late starts, 11am, for Levanto, we knew we were in for a tough climb, but I made it even tougher by taking a wrong turn, so that we had to do about 5k extra upwards, than we otherwise would have had to. It took about 4 hours to cover the 40k's. The third picture is looking back down the road to Sestri Levanto, as we made the climb.