Travel

And so our mini adventure ends. There’s not much to say about the day itself and I’ll leave the conclusions to further posts where I hope to pull some more considered thoughts together about the trip. However, for today, we did manage to get off from our one night stop reasonably early, by 8:30. And…

Right, the last full day on tour! Today we’re going to make as much progress up through France as we can, within reason. It had rained over night but the mud outside the van was still pretty resistant under foot – not like the mud bath that was the volcanic mush in Pompei! In the…

Nine weeks! So we’d performed a bit of a “left turn Clyde” to get to Avignon and away from the direct route home via Switzerland. We’d visited Avignon last year in August but wilted in the sun and didn’t do any of the sights or town. This detour now, in October, was therefore intended to…

So, we’re on the way home! We’re heading north now, and going to be taking big chunks out of the 2,500km we have to get there. We had a spectacular thunderstorm roll through the bay of Naples last night, from about 11 until 1 – sheet and fork lightning. The wind got up too, which…

Not much to report today. We trained it into Naples, wandered around and did the Underground Naples tour. Our start wasn’t too rushed this morning, we were hoping to get the 9:30 train from the Villa Regina train station so we walked the 15 minutes to the station rather than take the bikes. We’re still…

Day 59 of the “where’s my…” tour. Blimey, where’s all that time gone?! We’re calling it the “where’s my..” tour because we’ll both be exclaiming, multiple times a day, “where’s my” such and such as we panic about glasses, debit cards, passports, van key, etc etc etc. To date though, its just me that’s managed…

Today we’ve got a short hop from just north of Amalfi to up to Pompei. We also need to do some shopping and possibly even fit another visit in while we’re at it (turned out to be Vesuvius). As we left the site we were just at the wrong time for the bus… I.e. we…

Well, that was a bit of a crazy day! Nine hours out and about… getting to Amalfi on the bus, ferry to Positano, Positano, ferry back to Amalfi, Amalfi and the bonkers bus back to the campsite. It was a bit of an early start that we needed to get on the 8:50 bus from…

So… this was one of the days I’d been looking forward to. We’d visited Paestum in 2019, and if we were going to be in the area again then it’s somewhere I wouldn’t want to miss. The morning started with a cacophony though! Cockerels from 6:30 and church bells from about 7:30. At one point…

It’s another (mostly) travel day today. We’re leaving the fabulous town of Matera and heading for Greek Paestum. But first we had to check out the “other” view of Matera, from the other side of the valley looking back at the town. We couldn’t check out of the campsite until 9:30 (probably should have checked…

Well… it’s another one of those WOW! days. You can see why Matera got used in the latest No Time To Die, Bond film. It was a reasonably leisurely start as we opted to take one of the two complimentary shuttles into town from the campsite. Which dropped us off at the end of the…

Another travel day… the relentless pull of the road never ceases! Not much to report today, and the Dashcam was playing silly buggers (needed the SD card reformatting) and so there’s not much from there either. Camping Torre Sabea was a nice little site. Very tired, quirky, but we enjoyed it. Sue didn’t enjoy her…

After making our way yesterday from Brindisi to just outside Gallipoli, through Lecce, we were destined to head into Gallipoli today. It was a sunny start to the day, but way too early. We’re right next to the loos at this site and the cleaners were chatting loudly to each other and even having phone…

If you’ve been following along so far then you’ll know we started today on the outskirts of Brindisi, being woken by the dogs that sent us to sleep last night. We have 2449 km on the SatNav to get us home. But today we’re going to be heading away from that route and heading south.…

We had a 2PM ferry from Igoumenitsa to Brindisi today, so we were afforded another leisurely start. And of course what better way to start than a long chat with Helen and Jeremy. That’s when we found out their van had been flooded in the port they had left the boat in. Hopefully I shall…

End of the seventh week and it’s another travel day. After 10 days on Corfu (thoughts on Corfu at the end), we’re on the homeward stretch now. It was an early start for Phil and Linda with a 5:45 taxi to Corfu airport. They had two flights today, one to Athens and the next to…