
Gran Paradiso Part 1: Cogne and Lillaz
03/06/18 – 06/06/18 South of the Aosta Valley is an offshoot of the Alps, Italy’s first national park. It is named after its highest peak – Gran Paradiso – the… Read more »
03/06/18 – 06/06/18 South of the Aosta Valley is an offshoot of the Alps, Italy’s first national park. It is named after its highest peak – Gran Paradiso – the… Read more »
While we were in Cervinia we sat and watched as the spring sun thawed the snow and created avalanches. The sound as the snow starts to move is awesome in… Read more »
31/05/18 – 02/06/18 Breuil-Cervinia sits at the head of the Valtournenche. It’s a resort town, mostly purpose built to support the skiing industry, and we were quite shocked to see… Read more »
28/05/18 – 30/05/18 We had finally arrived in the Valle d’Aosta, the most westerly of Italy’s alpine regions which has borders with Switzerland and France. In fact French is an… Read more »
27/05/18 We left the large sosta in Celle Ligure on the Sunday morning, along with many other Italian vans who had been weekending there. Before we departed Paul did his… Read more »
25/05/18 – 26/05/18 When we sat and planned our route north to the alps we decided that we would have one final day by the beach – after all the… Read more »
24/05/18 Monte Forato had caught my eye while we were driving south through Italy and we’d immediately put it on our to-do list. There was too much snow on the… Read more »
23/05/18 Florence is on many people’s ‘must do’ lists for Italy. It hadn’t made it to the top of our list on the way south, when we visited Pisa and… Read more »
22/05/18 After the Monte Sibillini we were planning to head for the Apuan Alps, a small offshoot of the Apennines that sits behind the coast of northern Tuscany. It was… Read more »
21/05/18 Today was spent nursing Bertie back to health. A few days previously we had noticed Bertie’s brake warning light flickering intermittently on the dashboard. Today, as we drove back… Read more »
19/05/18 – 20/05/18 In search of a sosta we left the beautiful Piano Grande (I keep wanting to call it the Grand Piano, but that’s something else entirely), driving the… Read more »
17/05/18 – 18/05/18 We were continuing our homeward journey northwards and the next stop would be the Sibillini national park. This area was hard hit by multiple earthquakes in 2016… Read more »
16/05/18 North of the Gran Sasso mountains is the Monti della Laga area. The two mountainous areas form one national park but are very different in nature. The sharp limestone… Read more »
14/05/18 – 15/05/18 Yesterday we had walked up to Prati di Tivo, today we drove up. The large car park which had been full of ‘macchine’ was now nearly empty… Read more »
12/05/18 – 13/05/18 As we travelled around the ridge of the Gran Sasso we started to see more evidence of earthquake damage, this was to become a feature of the… Read more »
11/05/18 Although we’d deliberately decided to stay lower down the mountains, the lure of the snowy heights proved too much and we decided we had to go up to Campo… Read more »
09/05/18 – 10/05/18 We made our way from L’Aquila up through the foothills of the Gran Sasso national park, climbing up on the major road (A24) that chugged almost imperceptibly… Read more »
08/05/18 Between the Majella national park and our next stop in the Gran Sasso national park we decided to stop in L’Aquila. Guidebooks have little to say about L’Aquila at… Read more »
04/05/18 – 07/05/18 When we were planning our time in the Majella national park we had looked at various maps and options for walking and cycling. Ambitiously we thought we… Read more »
02/05/18 – 03/05/18 After Vieste we went further round the coast to Peschici, a white walled fishing village that tumbles down the side of a headland and finishes at the… Read more »