Not Only Onions in Tropea
19/03/18 As we drove into Tropea, passing a number of vegetable selling stalls on the side of the road, I finally remembered why I recognised the name. We had recently… Read more »
Category: Italy
Two Churches but no Ice Cream!
18/03/18 Visiting a famous monastery and church on a Sunday was probably not a good idea. Especially on a sunday leading up to Easter. Our poor excuse was that we… Read more »
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 »
A Serendipitous Stop
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 »
The Heavens Opened
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 »
Appraise my Donkey
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 »
Finding Sostas in the Mountains
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 »
A Walk and Two Doughnuts
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 »
A Mystery Solved
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 »
Bent Wheels and Buffalo Butter
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 »
Greek Temples in Paestum
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 »
Long Days Driving
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 »
Frozen on the Inside
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 »
Preparing for the Foscagno Pass
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 »
Still Cant Find What We’re Looking For
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 »
Red Road Houses on the Adriatic Coast
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 »
Whatever Happened to that Petrol Cap?
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 »
Yet Another Amphitheatre
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 »
Almost to the Top of Vesuvius
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 »
An Unsuccesful Seaside Jaunt
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 »