Camping Again near Gallipoli
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 »
Category: Cycling
Camping Behaviour in Sant’ Andrea
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 »
Beeping Italians
19/04/18 Our parking spot to the south of San Cataldo had been noisier than we expected. We thought we had chosen a good place as far from the town as… Read more »
Finding Feral Trulli
13/04/18 – 15/04/18 The Valle d’Itria is a wide shallow depression that runs from north-west to south-east through the limestone heart of Puglia, roughly between the latitudes of Bari and… Read more »
A Chorus of Frogs and Owls
04/04/18 When we got on our bikes the following morning it was with the intention of heading east and exploring the nearby WWF nature reserve. But first of all we… Read more »
Black Squirrels in La Sila
30/03/18 – 31/03/18 It might seem like we’re doing the Hokey-Cokey with our regular alternation between coast and inland. It was time to put our left leg in and move… Read more »
A Small Town with a Big Cathederal
26/03/18 – 27/03/18 After being on the coast for a while we decided to head inland. The town of Gerace was chosen mostly because of it’s location rather than any… Read more »
The Disappearing Roads of Bruzzano
24/03/18 – 25/03/18 We had ended up here – near the village of Canalello and Ferruzzano station – unexpectedly so we had no plans and knew nothing about the area…. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
After the Old Stuff, Old People
07/02/18 – 08/02/18 After Rome Paul decreed that he couldn’t cope with any more ‘Old Sh*t’ and needed to detox. So it was time to find somewhere we could walk… Read more »
This Green and Pleasant Land
27/01/18 Part of the appeal of Tuscany, we decided, was the amount of green growth we could see. Even in winter when the trees were mostly bare, the hills and… Read more »
The Route des Crêtes – Better on a Bike
23/01/18 We had spent a few days discussing a possible visit to the Verdon Gorge. Would we go? It was ‘sort of’ en-route, but ideally we would want to spend… Read more »
Border Crossings
19/01/18 We stayed at Portbou harbour for our last night in Spain. We hadn’t intended to stay there but had been frightened off our intended parking spot – Platja de… Read more »
Snow in the Alpujarras
09/01/18 – 11/01/18 It was going to be a whistle stop tour through the Alpujarras as the inclement weather had delayed our start. We only had three days before we… Read more »
Cycling in Cabo de Gata
28/12/17 – 29/12/17 We were looking forward to visiting the Natural Park of Cabo de Gata, somewhere that we had seen on blogs and forums and imagined we would enjoy…. Read more »
The Grazalema Mountains
16/12/17 – 17/12/17 From Seville we travelled south east to the Sierra de Grazalema natural park where we hoped to get our mountain fix. Our first stop was El Bosque,… Read more »