We walked around La Spezia this morning. It was shut. We were expecting this, though, because it's a Sunday and all of Italy is shut on Sunday. In that regard, it's like the entirety of August. We decided to go to the castle for the museum and views of the local rooftops. The castle said it opened at 9:30, Google said it opened at 10:30. We got there at 10:00. Google was right. We waited 30 minutes in the shade while being feasted on by midges.
Still, this gave us time to recover from the walk up many steps we had taken to get there. We complained that in Santander they had a funicular up the city's hill, but they didn't have one here. It turned out they did have one; as in Spain, we missed it until we got to the top and learned of our misfortune. We took it down, though; it would have been rude not to do so.
The view from the castle was good, apart from badly-placed trees and apartment buildings.
Stung by my comments yesterday about the number of warships in what's supposed to be the country's primary naval base, Italy added another four yesterday. This brings the total up to a much more respectable seven.
There's a P&O cruise liner docked next to ours. According to a passenger we met, all the shows have been cancelled for this evening and every TV on the ship will be showing the European Championship final. This is what happens when you're on a ship that sails from England. Even the crew want to watch it. The passenger we spoke to wasn't all that fussed, though, as he was Scottish.
The P&O ship is taller than ours. I think that's because they have a floor 13 and we don't because this is an American ship. I'm surprised they didn't make up for it with two floor 3s, for good luck.