So yesterday we made it to Italy. Last year Italy was infinitely more expensive than anywhere, road tolls stretching into millions meals on the thousands etc etc. This year France tried to bankrupt us, Italy so far has been very kind financially which initially motivated us to see more so, we headed towards deepest darkest Italy, intending to stop at a beach. Apparently there's no parking anywhere at Italian beach resorts so after a futile half hour drive ( think wacky races if you want to know what Italian town driving is lie, I'm still not sure if they caught the pigeon) round a resort, we gave up and kept on going. We made it through the stupidly bad Italian motorway drivers, (many blokes trying to out do each other on total twatishness and no concept
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