Day 22 The Dolomites

Our first full day in the Dolomites started in a very relaxed fashion - with no alarm we woke up at just after 7:30am, that was a nice surprise!
After breakfast had gone down, we wandered into the village in search of a bakery for our daily bread. Charlie found a Spar supermarket that was absolutely massive, he disappeared in there for a good 15 minutes while Marla and I chilled outside. He came out with a big bag of goodies including cheeses, bread, wasabi flavoured crisps and a Belgian beer for old times sake! Oh - and a spinach, feta pastry thing. Then I popped into the bakery / cafe for a slice of Black Forest cake and face biscuits!
Back to camp for lunch, ciabattas with tomato, mozzarella and pesto with an assortment of goodies from this morning.
We then went for a walk around the trails behind the campsite to work off some of millions of calories consumed at lunch. I’m sure I said this yesterday, it’s stunning around here! The rain was coming in, so it was rather cloudy and atmospheric, very different from the sunshine we arrived in yesterday.
We just finished our walk and the rain came in pretty hard so the rest of the afternoon was spent sheltering. I have cracked on with my crochet blanket (with this weather I will need it soon).
We had a table booked at the campsite restaurant for dinner, it’s open to everyone and was absolutely heaving by the time we left.
We had pizza for dinner (had to be for our first meal out in Italy!) I went for 4 cheese, no idea what the cheeses were but it was delicious! Charlie went for a spicy, pizza with courgettes, tomato and more mozzarella and pesto 😂 We also had tiramisu for pudding, which was tasty but a bit heavy on the cocoa power.
Marla did so well at dinner, we had a massive table for the 2 of us, so we tucked her in the corner on her blanket and she pretty much settled down and only gave a few barks when she was startled by people talking.
Back to the safety of the van for the evening as it’s raining again and pretty chilly out now.
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