And so… Home. #ItalyRoadTrip
It was with a quiet sense of tired sadness that we finally said goodbye to Italy and headed through the Mont Blanc tunnel on our journey home. Although we still had a full three days of travel in front of us, we all felt that the trip was pretty much over – we began to talk about home and plans for the rest of the year, rather then our plans for tomorrow – or simply sitting back and not really thinking much of anything as...
Day 21 – Seeing Pisa #ItalyRoadTrip
The drive from Ostia was a pretty one through the rolling hills and dramatic countryside of Tuscany – once again, we were frustrated by our tight schedule, and yearning to just head off the autostrade to explore the little villages we could see tucked away onto practically every hilltop we whizzed past. But this was not the holiday for that. This was the whistlestop Grand Tour, and we were headed to one of the husband’s...
Day 19 – moving on again, finding Ostia Antica #Italyroadtrip
Following the amazing madness of a day absorbing the scale of both Pompeii and Vesuvias we decided to take a day on Dei Pini’s lovely beach to relax and enjoy. We swam with the fish, we read on the sand, I caught up with some work… And Boy got nipped by a crab. Twice. But we had many miles still to go, and couldn’t stay still for ever. We have quickly fallen into the swing of living in a motorhome. There is so little...
DAY 17 – Pompeii’s Cave Canem had me lost for words and on top of the world on an active Volcano that is… Vesuvias! #Italyroadtrip
I gazed through the envelope of viewing space in the messy gauze covering, and felt my heart give a double thump. There he was….Cave Canem! The mosaic dog that had astonished my brain and made me fall in love with Ancient Rome when I was not even a teenager. ‘Beware of the dog’ – a Roman with a sense of humour. And unexpectedly the dog is far more beautiful than any picture had ever conveyed to me....
Day 15 – The Amazing Surprise that is Paestum #ItalyRoadTrip
Forcing ourselves onwards from the bubble of Ugento (we hadn’t left the Riva Di Ugento site once to explore the surroundings, though we know there are caves and grottos to see on fabulous boat trips), we began our journey northwards once more, slowly crossing the bottom of Italy to head up the coast towards Salerno, stopping at Camping Dei Pini, just up the road from Paestum. We arrived tired, as always, to a reception that...
Day Fourteen of the #ItalyRoadTrip – leaving Ugento. What a wrench.
The countryside didn’t really improve much as we approached our stopping place for the next four nights, and with just 15 minutes to go before we were at our site we were all feeling more than a bit deflated at the rather (flat, hot, untidy, grubby and commercialised) unimpressive area we were in. Exhausted, we ploughed on the last few miles; just glad we had somewhere to be stopping, and thankful for the flexibility of Margot...