Portofino Local Customs

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Luxury yacht owners enjoying in showing up, landing and taking off from the port looks alike ceremony for them. They staring at the public on land in order to check wheter people is observing their boat, while people staring back hoping to see some celebrities on the deck. In my opinion, both sides are wasting time in vain.

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Portofino harbor is rather small, less then 100m side-to-side, and mostly filled by the domestic small boats. There isn't much of space for random boat visitors and I doubt such visitors could even enter inside of the harbor. There is quay strictly reserved for the boats which bringing tourists to Portofino and around it is always traffic jam which causing small local boats moving in or out of a harbor. There are two spots reserved for the bigger yacht-boats and thats it. I wonder how it is inside of harbour in case of sudden storm at sea?

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I was expecting to see much more then only few galleries in Portofino and those three or four which I saw around aren't worth of mentioning. But there must be a reason for it, probably because rich people buy paintings elswhere, while day trip visitors aren't much interesting in spending more then needing. There are few souvenirs shops in Portofino but free of potential clients.