Below are some general links we've found to be useful when visiting the area, or even for living here permanently. All links open in a new window.

Suggested sites that are not related to Liguria:

Immobilien in Spanien Experten für Costa Blanca Villen und Luxusvillen, Appartements und Baugrundstücke.

Interesting links for Liguria:

Anthony's Italiansrus.com. Your guide to Italian Culture on the Web. Enjoy as you learn more about the traditions, heritage and way of life that make Italians who they are.

weather.yahoo.com. Daily weather and longer forecasts around the world.

www.inforiviera.it. A view on riviera delle palme hourly up-to-dated (24 hours-a-day), to know present weather condition and forecasts for next days.

www.mappy.com. Mappy.com provide a first class service and an easy-to-use website. From detailed street maps, to large-scale region maps, to route-planners, journey times, road tolls, local ammenities, hotel finder... .

www.onlineconversion.com. An accurate, up-to-date currency convertor.

www.ryanair.com. RyanAir fly from Stansted, just north of London, to Genoa for as little as 40 Euros return off-season.

www.easyjet.co.uk. Easyjet fly from Gatwick, just south of London, to Nice from around 50 Euros return.

www.italyby.com. ItalyBy serve up an interesting selection of good-quality hotels and unusual, characterful places to stay. Well worth a look.

www.regione.liguria.it. One of Italy's smallest regions, Liguria stretches west in a narrow ribbon along the coast from France. Mountains separate it from Piedmont to the north, Emilia Romagna to the east and Tuscany to the south.

www.britishcouncil.it. Another nice site (also in Italian - so you'd best start learning!) offering pretty much the same thing. The British Council, based in Bologna.

www.trenitalia.com. Easy-to-use train information and booking service. In English as well as German and French.

www.hotelvillairis.it/italiano/lingue.htm. A easy to navigate, multilingual website to a lovely hotel in Loano. Lots of pics!