Thank you Gian and Diana for making us feel so welcome and at home. The apartment (middle floor) is beautiful, spacious, clean and equipped with everything we could have wanted including things to keep you going initially such as soaps, toilet roll, wine, beer, washing liquid etc.
The views are stunning from both the apartment and the garden. The garden is on 3 levels: the lower garden is lushly planted with olive trees, hammock and two dining tables, the middle garden has the pool, sunbeds and a terrace and the top level has terrace, sunbeds and a table where you can dine overlooking the Bay of Poets and watching the sunset.
Gian and Diana offer to cook an evening meal (of course at an extra cost) and we do recommend doing this as the food was absolutely wonderful. The local restaurants are very good (eg Il Frantoio in Lerici) but Gian and Diana's food is a gastronomic feast! Plus you are served by your own personal chefs at a table with a wonderful view. It was so good we had it 3 times.
Locally, other than Lerici, we visited Portovenere (on the boat), Tellaro, San Terenzo (we walked here from the apartment), Montemarcello, Sarzana, which was surprisingly attractive (free parking Via Angelo Lucri by the Conad), Pontremoli (easy free parking everywhere), Lucca (brilliant place, pay parking at Carducci), Parma (pay parking at Toschi) and the Roman site at Luni. All of these places are recommended to visit.
We look forward to our next stay with Gian and Diana.