A Final Jaunt in the Gran Sasso
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 »
Category: Walking
Classics and Chamois
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 »
Preparing for the Giro d’Italia at Campo Imperatore
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 »
In the Shadow of the Gran Sasso at Fonte Cerreto
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 »
Three Gorges in the Majella National Park
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 »
Whose Pigs are these?
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 »
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 »
Bones and Birds in Otranto
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 »
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 »
Watching the Fishermen
16/04/18 – 17/04/18 The weather seemed to have suddenly turned a corner, we had gone from cool breezy spring days to warm and muggy almost overnight. It was the sort… Read more »
Troglodyte Living in Matera
05/04/18 – 07/04/17 Matera; a city soon to be European Capital of Culture (poor Plovdiv is sharing the accolade in 2019 but seems likely to be overshadowed), famed for it’s… Read more »
Buona Pasqua! Buona Pasquetta!
01/04/18 – 02/04/18 We settled into our campsite at Lago Arvo waiting for the predicted snow to arrive. The temperature got gradually colder and the snow started to fall in… Read more »
Stuck on a Rock
29/03/18 Our next stop was Le Castella, known – strangely enough – for it’s castle that sits on a spur of land connected to the mainland by a narrow land… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »