Day 5 - Trento, Italy to Venice, Italy

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Today was museum day and the dreaded italian roads day. When you look at Italy without going there, you think its a nice country to visit and seeing as they make all these different brands of supercars, it will be a nice place to drive through. How wrong would you be. It was chaos. Speed limits in the built up areas are mostly 50km/h zones, yet the locals refuse to do these speeds. We were overtaken doing 60km/h by a local who went past us on a junction with other cars coming towards us. Absolutely bonkers. Also, the italian police aren't exactly a friendly bunch. One, they carry guns, 2, they are quite intimidating and finally when they pull you over, they don't say a word. Just about to head onto an Autostrade (which itself is another annoying thing), we get flagged down by the Italian Rozzers. I wound the window down and was ready to try and communicate with the woman, yet all she did was walk around the car, look at a few things and then stand next to the passenger window pointing down the road, at which point we were really confused so we just drove off. We didn't know if we did something wrong, but the lack of a word from her led us to believe we could just go.



We had a plan of which museums we would visit when. The first museum was the Maserati museum which was on a farm. At first, you would be worried about trespassing but you just drive onto the farm, avoid the dog in the middle of the road, and then park up. We parked and got out and had a look around. We spent 5 minutes actually looking for the place as nothing was sign posted. We eventually found the museum in a barn, in the corner of the farm. Outside were tractors, and one that caught my eye was a old Lamborghini tractor. How odd. We then went inside and were amazed at the state of the museum. Lots of old Maserati's on the bottom floor all out on display and lots of bikes on the first floor. The thing is, is that the museum was practically dead. We just assumed that because of it's location, not many people know about it, as it was literally, no joke, on a working farm. After that, we headed to the Ferrari museum which was a 30 minute drive.



You could tell this was the home of Ferrari. Plenty of flash cars around, and lots of people. In the car park out front of the museum were 3 English reg cars; one brand new Jaguar F-Type Coupe, one Porsche GT and finally a Lamborghini Galarado. Also in the car park was a brand new BMW M4. We had also managed to turn up on the day that the Ferrari boss resigned, so there was a lot of media attention. The Ferrari museum is the type of museum you visit once. It was quite expensive, and you could see a lot of cars, including the new LaFerrari. After that, we had a bite to eat in the nearby Ferrari cafe. A bit expensive, but fine by us as the Ferrari experience was next door so you could see multiple Ferrari's out the window.



We then headed the Lamborghini Museum, which, too me, was a disappointment. If I remember correctly, it was €13 which was not worth it. Two floors next to the factory which contained a few Lamborghini's. The FREE Maserati museum had more cars than this. Also, the parking was not very good either. We followed the Porsche's we saw on the Stelvio to the car park, and spoiled there look as halfway through the convoy of Porsche's was our humble 306 Turbo. A few cars were seen including the Italian Lamborghini police car and the 5 door Lamborghini. We didn't spend much time here before we set off on the final leg to Venice. We actually stayed in San Donà di Piave, which was a 40 minute taxi ride from Venice. We couldn't drive there, as the parking is non existent in Venice, so we decided against it and had an early night. Venice is a must do next time I do the Motoscape. It was a shame we didn't get to visit Venice, but there is always next year, and the year after that, and the year after that....

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