Back in Tuscany
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 »
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 »
01/05/18 During yesterday evening we searched for a spot to park in the famous forests in the central Gargano. We found parking spots, but they were off road and deeply… Read more »
29/04/18 -30/04/18 We spent some time in Camping Torre Sabea thinking about our plans for the next few weeks. We need to be back in the UK for the end… Read more »
26/04/18 – 28/04/18 We chose Camping Torre Sabea as our campsite to give us time and space to solve our mosquito problem. We ended up staying for three nights at… Read more »
I’m not sure why I haven’t mentioned the blood sucking monsters yet, but that’s all going to change in this blog post. With rising heat and falling wind speeds it… Read more »
25/04/18 The 25th April is Liberation Day in Italy. A day to remember the end of the fascist dictatorship and the end of Nazi occupation. It’s also very close to… Read more »
24/04/18 Driving for pleasure is not something we’re accustomed to. We don’t really spend much time driving for the enjoyment of it. In Italy it’s even harder to enjoy a… Read more »
23/04/18 We left our lovely campsite to head a very short distance to Otranto, We had one of those starts where we just couldn’t settle. There is a lot of… Read more »
20/04/18 – 22/04/18 Sometimes writing a blog that’s a couple of weeks in the past is a bit of a slog. Take today for instance, we have had a big… Read more »