Our last few days of Skiing
13/12/2023 A short walk along the Via Francigena The Via Francigena is an ancient pilgrimage route from Canterbury to the Rome. The route is sometimes taken all the way down… Read more »
Category: Italy
In the Christmas Spirit?
10/12/2023 With Christmas approaching, what is better to get you in the mood than a trip to a Christmas market? Surrounded by all the trappings of the festive period it… Read more »
Trying somewhere new in Champoluc
08/12/23 Cervinia is great, and we love going back, but we feel disappointed if we dont try somewhere new. We had heard of a new sosta near the ski resort… Read more »
December Skiing in Cervinia
30/11/2023 Our first day in Cervinia was not to be the mega skiing day we had hoped for. Snow fell during the night and then continued to fall all day…. Read more »
A Last Minute Dash to the Alps
27/11/2023 When we got back from Switzerland in October I’d decided to look for work. Some of our income is generated through a rental property (our old home) and still… Read more »
Heading into Switzerland
17/04/2023 For a couple of weeks we had been thinking about our journey back to the UK and we were very nearly at the point of initiating the plan. But… Read more »
Closing Weekend in Valtournenche
15th April Leaving Antey-Saint-Andre We packed up Bertie and used the services in Antey-Saint-Andre before moving further up the valley. The services only had the one tap with a short… Read more »
Chamois – the Village you cannot reach by Car
13/04/23 A gassy refill It was gas that forced us away from Cervinia. The LPG that we use to fuel our fridge, hot water and heating was on the verge… Read more »
More Snippets from Cervinia
08/04/2023 Getting Busy There had been a handful of people in the sosta when we arrived, but things gradually got busier until we found ourselves surrounded by over 40 motorhomes…. Read more »
Back in Cervinia
05/04/2023 We left Chatillon and eased Bertie up the road to Cervinia on the Wednesday before Easter. It wasn’t clear how busy Cervinia would be this Easter but it was… Read more »
Beyond the sosta and the supermarket
04/04/23 This is a story of two separate days in the same location, separated by a week in Cervinia (about which I will post, it just made sense to bundle… Read more »
Arriving in Aosta
03/04/23 Another Aosta valley new experience beckoned. We have never actually visited Aosta itself, which seems like a major omission in our frequent visits to the eponymous valley. Aosta Town… Read more »
Traversing the Aosta Valley – Pre-Saint-Didier
01/04/23 We were on a quest to find new things to do in the Aosta Valley. La Thuile was a good start but it was time to move on. The… Read more »
Wild Winds in La Thuile
30/03/2023 It was time to move on from Samoens and from France, heading East to Italy where we expect to spend the remainder of our skiing time. First, a shopping… Read more »
A Little Luxury and some Snowshoeing at Camping Sexten
05/05/19 – 07/05/19 We had reached the conclusion that the Dolomites were rather expensive for motorhome travel. Often we hear people complaining about the cost of travelling in Italy and… Read more »
Our First GPL Refusal and a Search for Parking
02/05/19 – 04/05/19 Our lovely sunny weather in Molveno was just a momentary blip. The weather forecast was showing temperatures dipping again, with snow in the mountains. We thought we… Read more »
Marvelous Molveno
29/04/19 – 01/05/19 With a couple of unsuccessful mountain excursions under our belts we thought it was time to take a new approach and visit somewhere a little busier and… Read more »
The Good and the Bad of Shoulder Season
26/05/19 – 29/05/19 Travelling in the mountains during ‘shoulder season’ can sometimes be highly frustrating. As the snow recedes, it leaves behind the debris of autumn storms and winter snowfall…. Read more »
Getting into the Mountains at Borno
24/04/19 – 25/04/19 We woke up to a rainy day and a forecast of 24 hours more rain to come. However a bright ray of sunshine appeared in the forecast… Read more »
Ancient Graffito in the Val Camonica
23/04/19 Paul doesn’t display the highest levels of enthusiasm when visiting historical sites unless they have some element of engineering or architectural interest. So when I announced that I wanted… Read more »