16 October 2018 Today we started the serious driving to take us home and travelled 450k mainly on motorways. Firstly northwards along attractive mountainous roads with the trees starting to show their autumn colours, then west along the boring plains of northern Italy, round Milan and finally north again back in the mountains to one of the Italian lakes, Lago Maggiore. We stayed in an excellent lakeside campsite in the village of Solcio on the western shore.... read more

14 October 2018 The festival activities came thick and fast today. We had to be back in town by 9.00 to see the start of a 37.5k Mountain Bike event with 1500m ascent which followed a route around the steep town streets and into the local hills. There were hundreds of competitors, both serious racers and fun bikers. Going on at the same time was an archery competition in the grounds of a 16th century villa. All the competitors were dressed in medieval clothes and moved around a series of different targets. The Palio dei Terzieri, the main event of the weekend, took place in the afternoon and we managed to get some tickets to sit amongst the locals and see the excitement. The Palio remembers the tenacity of the young men of Trevi who rebuilt ... read more

12 October 2018 In 2008 we visited the large town of ( blog link ), but as there was a lot of refurbishment going on then, we decided to make another visit. As we were driving onto the dual carriageway out of Spello we got a stunning view of the town so we turned round and photographed it. When we eventually arrived at Spoleto we had some navigational difficulties, firstly finding a supermarket and then the camperstop, mainly because it was market day and one of the access roads was blocked. Since we were last there, the town has invested in a series of escalators and moving pavements to make travelling up the hill on which it is built much easier. Fortunately, the camperstop was located close to the bottom of a flight of six escalators ... read more

10 October 2018 A gentle day revelling in our superb current location including doing chores and strolling into town to buy the food for our lunch and dinner.... read more

08 October 2018 Camping Kursall is on Lake Trasimeno, but not all pitches are directly adjacent to the water. The morning after we arrived we asked to be moved to a lakeside pitch if one was available and finished up on a delightful south facing spot on a small promontory, so we could look right along the lake. This morning we awoke at 7.30, opened the blinds and were faced with the breath-taking view of the blazing sun rising shining through a mist which lay over the distant ridges and being reflected on the lake. The evening, easily seen from our pitch, was equally impressive. Two bands of cloud lay over the western hills and the sun effectively set three times as it passed through them turning the clouds around the whole perimeter of the lake ... read more