Thursday 13th October A lovely peaceful night by the Grotte Gigante, it’s not really a proper sosta but it is so far from any habitation with few passerbys you’re just allowed to get on with it. The Grotte Gigante is…
Lucky left or rubbish right?
Wednesday 12th October What I don’t understand is if church bells are meant to be signalling the time why do they go absolutely crazy at quarter to eight in the evening, sound the hours at 8pm, 9pm and then 10pm…
Siesta at the Sosta
Tuesday 11th October Last night was our first night without electric hook up for over a week. We’ve had a problem with the batteries and last January we bought new ones in Spain which seemed to work even worse than…
Ciao Italia
Monday 10th October I was looking forward to an easy driving day today, couldn’t go through anything like yesterdays trip for a while. It’s been raining all night and the electric heating has been running almost non stop – it’s…
Smoke gets in your eyes
Sunday 9th October Bloody typical, you hang around waiting for the weather to improve, you look at the weather forecasts and they are showing no improvements so you move on. And you wake up to this view in the morning.…
Moving on a Saturday
Saturday 8th October Two weeks in a trot we have broken golden rule number 1, don’t move at the weekend because everyone else will be out and about for the weekend. We’ve given up completely on seeing the Eagles Nest…
Warm as toast
Friday 7th October We are still in Bad Reichenhall. It is still raining and looks like it will be raining for the next 10 days judging by weather.com We have no wind which means the rain isn’t getting blown away…
Water, water everywhere…
Wednesday 5th October We met up with Darren and Mandy again the night before last, they have been to Berchtesgarten and are on their way back to Fussen and maybe a hop over the alps into Italy and then on…
Fail to plan – plan to fail
Monday 3rd October Breaking with tradition there will be no beer photos today so you will have to put up with some wine photos. Sunday it rained nearly non stop so we decided to have a day of rest, I…
I wish it could be Christmas everyday..
Saturday 1st October Today I broke four of my unwritten rules and you nearly didn’t get a beer photo but things improved and the beer photo is here. First mistake, move at a weekend (especially a bank holiday weekend), realised…