Day 24 - Camp Miralago

Another chilly start to the day - but now I have figured out that if I leave the van heater on but in standby overnight, I can then turn on the van heating with my phone. We had a lot of rain and some thunder, the mountains around us had all disappeared into the clouds. A couple of hours later and everything had blown away leaving us with blue skies and it was starting to warm up. Once the clouds had moved on, we could see that the mountains all around us are covered with a fresh dusting of snow. Good job we are moving on today to a lake that’s at much lower altitude and a bit further south, we’re hoping for shorts and tshirt weather again. Not that this cold has stopped us wearing shorts and tshirt most days, but we have been layering up with jumpers and coats, and wishing we had gloves!
We had a final walk around the dolomites with Marla to get some of her energy out.
On to travelling, we decided to stop in the city of Bolzano as we’d seen a big pet shop with a Eurospar supermarket next door. Looking at the routes, we decided to stick to non toll roads as it wouldn’t make much difference to arrival time at our next came site.
It was about an hour and a half to Bolzano. We ate lunch in the car park and then Marla and I had a wander around the pet shop while Charlie popped off to the supermarket.
We managed to stock up on some Edgard Cooper dog food, something we’ve got Marla used to. She was also given some treats by the people working behind the till, even though she did a very angry big girl bark when they said hello to her.
Back on the road and it was about 2 and a half hours of tunnels and wiggly woggly roads - including an epic set of switchbacks, which someone overtook me on!
We did make it safe and sound to our next camp, Camping Miralago. Another very stunning location, although the lake has a strong smell of duck poop - but it’s very pretty. The campsite has a bar and restaurant on the waters edge that we took full advantage of while the sun was shining. Such a lovely place, they kept bring us little snacks with our drinks. Round one was some crisps and peanuts, round two was some pizza and round three was some tortilla chips. Charlie stuck with beers, I started with a beer but then switched to Aperol Spritz, which was cheaper than the beer! While we could still walk, we headed back to camp to make some dinner of Pesto Pasta and a bottle of red wine Charlie picked up for €5, and it was absolutely delicious (or that could have been the Aperol talking!). We’ve had a bit of thunder this evening, so we are holed up in the van listening to episodes of “I’m sorry I haven’t a clue”. Marla is absolutely shattered so we probably won’t do anything else this evening.Leggi altro