Author Archives: AdrianC

Round the western end

Posted on November 24, 2011 by AdrianC

After our mud-bath, the Austrian owner of the Torre Salsa site greeted us with the news that we couldn’t camp in their beach section, as the ground was too soft… We didn’t need telling twice, so settled in the main … Continue reading →

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Six months on…

Posted on November 19, 2011 by AdrianC

Today, 19th November, marks six months since we walked out of our house and drove to Dover. A lot’s happened in that time. We’ve been to a lot of places. We’ve covered about 20,000km (difficult to be sure, because of … Continue reading →

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Southern Sicily

Posted on November 15, 2011 by AdrianC

Ominous and insistent midnight buzzing has been the far-too-consistent soundtrack at the last couple of campsites, as mozzies have done their best to drive our chewed carcasses further insane. The campsite near Ragusa, Scarabeo, was lovely in all respects bar … Continue reading →

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Time off for a lazy beach holiday

Posted on November 4, 2011 by AdrianC

The long road south from Matera was probably not the most scintillating of the trip – the bits we could see through the weather looked good, anyway. At best murky and overcast, the rain broke one of our golden rules … Continue reading →

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Paestum

Posted on October 27, 2011 by AdrianC

Ellie’s already mentioned that all of Italy seems to take a quick look at the calendar, rather than the weather forecast, before getting dressed in the morning – further proof of that came on the road towards Paestum. You know … Continue reading →

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Header pic archive

Posted on October 24, 2011 by AdrianC

We were thinking the other day about the header pics we’ve been using on the site. When we first started travelling, we found it difficult to take pics that looked good in the very narrow format (940 x 198 pixels, … Continue reading →

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Up Pompei

Posted on October 24, 2011 by AdrianC

After leaving Abruzzo and the snow behind us, we headed south with the sun rapidly warming. We’d decided that going through Napoli itself was likely to be a thoroughly daft move, and jumping on the autostrada isn’t really what this … Continue reading →

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Are we making your forecourt look untidy? (part 3)

Posted on October 24, 2011 by AdrianC

You may remember the saga of our breakdown in France over the summer, made worse by the lack of communication we had from ADAC, our breakdown recovery service. When we got a chance, we wrote a letter to ADAC outlining … Continue reading →

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After the news, the weather

Posted on October 21, 2011 by AdrianC

On the final approach to Assisi, we’d jumped on the autostrada and skirted Perugia – a highway of tunnels and viaducts, with fleeting glimpses of suburban sprawl heading steeply upwards towards where we presumed the city centre lay. So it … Continue reading →

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On to Umbria

Posted on October 10, 2011 by AdrianC

We left Siena with mixed feelings – we’d just about had enough of the campsite (as we seem to have had with every site we’ve spent more than a couple of days at – does the perfect campsite exist?), but … Continue reading →

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