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So, driving through this fantastic mixture of landscape littered with architectonic and cultural gems doesn´t get boring at all. Often it is difficult to concentrate on driving with alternating views on the blue sea, ancient towns, vineyards and formidable mountains. I have done this drive quite a few times now and always enjoyed it (when I was not driving at night). But this time it didn´t touch me the way it used to do. I obviously still suffered from the sensorial overload of my recent trip to Iceland which raised the bar for what I considered exciting quite a bit.
But what kept me going was the prospect of a nice surf session. The Mistral was supposed to blow all day and back down late in the afternoon. With luck I would even get wet this evening and the forecast for the following day promised a whole day with surf, light offshore winds and bright sunshine.
It wasn´t too much traffic on the motorway but when I passed Genoa I started to get nervous. It was late afternoon now and would get dark in an hour and a half, which meant there wouldn´t be much daylight left to surf. When I passed Levanto I pondered leaving the motorway, but I did not know how the place would handle the westerly windswell and side-shore winds. And as I wouldn´t have time to check another spot I decided to keep driving east. A detour to the beautiful Cinque Terre town would take too long for getting another chance to surf somewhere else.
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