Category: Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
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Day 30. Arc-en-Barrois/Calais/Home
I was in two minds as to whether to write about our last trip day. Usually it’s just a day of tedium – long drive, queue at the port, get on ferry, drive home: done. But not today. First of all, Steve found a spider in his ear. Ok, it wasn’t huge but it was…
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Day 28. Annecy
Today started with a trip to Semnoz due to a recommendation from Marc, who owns the house we are staying in. He says the views are fantastic and on a clear day you can see Mont Blanc. It’s a 25 minute drive from Seynod along a steep and torturous road. We saw many cyclists with…
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Day 27. Verduno/Annecy
There was a power cut this morning so Salvatore was a bit distracted and didn’t bother checking the apartment, he just handed over our deposit. Phew! I think everything was shipshape, but you never know. We were sad to leave the area but it’s on the list for a return visit – plenty more to…
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Day 25. Verduno
Time to say goodbye to the charming hotel villa de Luchesse. The staff are so nice here, we have enjoyed our stay a lot. Today we headed north to Verduno, a village just outside Alba. We procrastinated as to which way to go, google map showed journey times as the same- do we risk La…
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Day 24. Sentierelsa Trail/Colle Val D’Elsa/San Gimignano
Our revised itinerary was added to by Steve in the shape of a riverside walk, close to the apparently picturesque town of Colle Val d’Elsa ( from now on known as CVE). After a baffling 10 minutes trying to work out how to obtain a ticket from the parking meter, we headed off on our…
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Day22/23-on the move Poggibonsi
Goodbye Mondolfo. We will miss you, particularly the swifts. Homeward bound but taking our time, our next stop was Poggibonsi, a town just outside of Siena. Having been let down on our original booking, (this appears to be a bit of a trend, see our Spain blog)we ended up in a hotel in this unheard…
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Day 21. Urbino
Urbino delivered. In spades. It’s a UNESCO site and it’s main claim to fame is that Raphael was born there. Those turtles certainly got around didn’t they? For a small amount of time, it was a Renaissance cultural centre and it’s university was founded in the 1500’s. I do enjoy old university towns, they always…
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Day 21. Furlo Gorge
I can’t believe I didn’t know that sunflowers follow the sun. As we were driving back from the gorge, I happened to notice that the sunflowers I saw yesterday were all facing in the opposite direction. I googled it and only the young ones do this. S thinks it’s because they get old and stiff…
Middle-aged flash packers 