We left Tuscania on Sunday morning and set off for Rome. The main road was the SR2, and it is by far the worst road we’ve driven along, a dreadful surface with potholes everywhere. We’re staying on the Flaminio Village campsite in the suburbs of Rome. The train station is close by, and the 15 … Read more
Our plan on leaving Florence was to visit Siena, staying overnight in a free car park on the edge of the city and taking a bus into town. We’d read that the car park was full during the day, so we arrived late afternoon. Unfortunately, the car park was quite compact, and there were only … Read more
On our way to Florence we made an overnight stop at Vinci, the birthplace of Leonardo. There’s a freebie municipal sosta there with services (no electricity though). We stopped on the way at a Co-op superstore to replenish the fridge, and boy did we regret it. The place was heaving and it was all a bit … Read more
We chose Chifenti as our base for exploring Lucca and Pisa as the sosta there is free (including electricity) and from there you can catch the train to Lucca and Pisa. The sosta is well laid out, and the only downside is that it’s in a bit of a mobile notspot. The drive to Chifenti … Read more
Heading towards Cinque Terre from Bologna, we stopped off at Sala Baganza for the night on Saturday. The sosta there was another freebie, located in a sports complex on the edge of a pretty village. The local football team was playing at home, so I went to watch the 3-3 draw, which was a fair … Read more
We left Venice on a beautiful autumn day, sun shining and clear blue skies after three days of wintery weather. But never mind, we can’t have everything! After an exhausting time in Venice we wanted a couple of days downtime before going to Bologna, so we stopped halfway at a small village called Castelgugliemo which has … Read more
Our last night in Italy was spent in the car park of a small village just outside Trieste, where we had our kitchen tap replaced on the Friday morning. Later that day, back in Slovenia, we stopped off to see Predjama Castle before moving on to the Postojna caves. We had intended to spend Friday … Read more
We’ve spent the past week touring around the Friuli part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the most north easterly province of Italy bordering Slovenia to the east, and Switzerland – and the Alps – to the north. We didn’t go up into the mountains, choosing instead to stay on the plains where the landscape is largely agricultural. … Read more
We definitely picked the right day to move on from Krk, as on the morning we left the skies were very grey with a storm brewing, and within minutes of driving away it absolutely poured down. We would have liked to have made it to Pula and Rovinj before leaving Croatia, but the sites nearby had … Read more
