Low Bridges and an Irish Victory
16/03/18 – 17/03/18 After our detour inland we drove back to the coast, picking up on our original intended route. This time we were heading for a long stretch of… Read more »
16/03/18 – 17/03/18 After our detour inland we drove back to the coast, picking up on our original intended route. This time we were heading for a long stretch of… Read more »
15/03/18 From Maratea we were unable to continue along the coast due to road closures. So we decided to head inland. We could see on the map that the road… Read more »
14/03/18 The Basilicata coast has been compared to the Amalfi coast in our guide book. Is it comparable? We don’t know yet because our trip to the Amalfi coast was… Read more »
13/03/18 The name of this post refers to the coast path that we walked on this day – Apprezzami l’Asino. The apocryphal story being that the path is so narrow,… Read more »
11/03/18 – 12/03/18 Apologies for the lack of photos. One thing we have learned from our time in Italy is that free motorhome facilities are generally found inland. So when… Read more »
10/03/18 We stayed in Marina di Camerota for two very different nights. On Friday night we were joined by a couple of Italian motorhomes in the big carpark behind the… Read more »
09/03/18 We had spent the night parked outside the archaeological site of Velia-Elea (Velia – the Roman name, Elea the earlier Greek name), another Magna Graecia settlement. A brief walk… Read more »
07/03/18 – 08/03/18 We drove down the road to Agropoli, the same road we had driven the day before in the other direction. A parking spot close to the coast… Read more »
05/03/18 – 06/03/18 When we got to Termoli we had decided to slow down and travel through Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria (roughly in that order) before heading north again. But… Read more »
02/03/18 – 04/03/18 We left Livigno pleased with ourselves for having survived the cold and happy that we’d managed to get some skiing in. During the cold nights we had… Read more »
24/02/18 – 01/02/18 We enjoyed our time in Livigno skiing, it’s a resort that is mostly wide red runs which suits us down to the ground as we don’t like… Read more »
22/02/18 – 23/02/18 As we got closer to our chosen ski resort of Livigno we were watching the weather closely. Two reasons, firstly we needed to choose a route that… Read more »
20/02/18 – 21/02/18 When Aaron was at school I remember him doing a Geography project about the plains of Italy. The plains which stretch across the north of Italy, south… Read more »
18/02/18 – 19/02/18 The weather was still pretty dreary so we don’t feel like doing anything active. We decide to start our journey north for some skiing and pick the… Read more »
17/02/18 It was a mystery. We were on our way to the mountains and stopped at a fuel station to fill up with Diesel only to find that we had… Read more »
16/02/18 After Vesuvius we migrated north east through Caserta, a town strung along a main road lined with relatively affluent showrooms and stores. Our parking spot was towards the western… Read more »
15/02/18 Snow had been falling on Bertie on Valentine’s evening. Fat flakes that hadn’t settled on the road but had frosted the trees. We didn’t know what Vesuvius summit would… Read more »
13/02/18 – 14/02/18 Oour plans to walk on Vesuvius were being delayed for a couple of days due to a rainy weather forecast. We couldn’t decide how to spend the… Read more »
11/02/18 – 12/02/18 We spent Sunday driving down to Pompei (the town) where were due to visit Pompeii (the ancient city). Our route took us initially through pleasant agricultural landscapes,… Read more »
10/02/18 While in Campodimele we decided that we would drive down to Naples before heading north again for some skiing. We weren’t sure what we would do after skiing so… Read more »