Category: 2025
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Tollare, Corsica
Saturday 10th May Bastia to Tollare, Corsica Meg had a run on the beach this morning, though she had to stay on her lead as she has taken to eating all the flotsum and jetsum, the little so and so. I’m sure its all organic but don’t want to take a chance of her being…
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To Bastia, Corsica
Thursday 7th & Friday 8th May Livorno, Italy to Corsica, France Thursday It rained really hard overnight. We, (actually, I) had to get up in the middle of the night to close the skylights as the rain was coming in. In the morning the carpark potholes were all under water. Thankfully, by the time we…
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Volterra and Livorno
Wednesday 7th May Silla to Livorno via Volterra, Italy It rained a little in the night and we woke up to a chilly morning. We were in the mountains so I shouldn’t have been surprised that the temperature was as low as 13°. But I was. We slowly packed up, there wasn’t a reason to…
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Change of Plan
4th to 6th May Rovinj, Croatia to Silla, Italy via Muggia and the Tourne factory in Slovenia Before heading further south we checked the latest developments in the “Parking in Greece” saga and decided that we couldn’t be bothered with it all. We’ll let it all settle down and go back to Greece another time.…
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Pula
Friday 2nd May and Saturday 3rd May Polari & Pula, Croatia Friday This is such a relaxing and chilled spot, we decided to stay for another couple of nights. Today we ventured off site to visit Pula, about an hour’s drive away. It was hot so thankfully we had started out early. There’s an official…
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Rovinj
Wednesday & Thursday 30th April & 1st May Piran, Slovenia to Polari, Croatia Wednesday We left Slovenia and drove for about an hour into Croatia heading for a humongous campsite in Polaris, ( Camping Polari) that is near a beautiful town called Rovinj. It was lovely and hot, the temperature was about 25° so we…
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Piran
Monday & Tuesday 28th & 29th April. Muggia, Italy to Piran, Slovenia Monday It was a hot night in the van. As we were in a car park, we couldn’t open the side windows, so just had all 3 skylights open with the shade pulled partially across to block the early morning light. Meg had…
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Muggia via Palmanova & Trieste
Sunday 27th April. Had a bit of a lazy start this morning. I think it’s because we knew we weren’t going far. Our next stop was to be Trieste. Apparently there are some fab Roman ruins there that Gareth wanted to see. Getting onto the motorway was easy and i was map searching for an…
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Austria to Udine
Saturday 26th April. We had another lovely sleep in the van last night even though it rained, a lot. Once we were up, I took Meg for a walk through the woods by the Aire, it led to the river which we crossed via a bridge and then worked our way back on the other…
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Bad Aibling
Fri 25th April. So here we are, it’s Friday. We have had another long day today. We’ve passed back into Germany and were heading for Rosenheim, just beyond Munich. Its started to rain again. The countryside has been a stark contrast of lush green and industrial grey mounds surrounded by rusty metal towers.