Starting off
2024年9月2日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Looks a bit wet out there...
Our new first stop?
2024年9月2日, イングランド ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Park and ride for a bargain stop and a free ride to Canterbury city centre. Evensong in the cathedral and back on the bus for supper.
Ferry time
2024年9月3日, English Channel ⋅ 🌬 19 °C
Made it safely this time...
Rural peace
2024年9月3日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Place to stay by a lovely stream...
Through Belgium...
2024年9月4日, ベルギー ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
...and Luxembourg
2024年9月4日, ルクセンブルク ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
Including a stop for cheaper ⛽️
...and Germany
2024年9月4日, ドイツ ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
...and France again
2024年9月4日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
A peaceful and dry evening avec saucissons, pommes de terre, oignons et haricots verts.
A day of homage and a wet vineyard
2024年9月5日, フランス ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Not exactly holiday fun, but important. Le Struthof, the only concentration camp on French soil. Alsace was annexed to Germany when they invaded. Memorable.
Finished up on vineyard which would beもっと詳しく
Still looking for the sun
2024年9月6日, スイス ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Travelling south through Switzerland...
Found the 🌞 on the St Gotthard Pass, in time for lunch.
The picture with me in it is right at the top of the pass.
Italy...800m from the border
2024年9月6日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Campsite in Italy, almost everything you can see is Switzerland. Yes, I swam in the lake.
Certosa di Pavia
2024年9月7日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
A lovely Carthusian monastery, built to the glory of the Visconti and Sforza families, as well as to the glory of God. The first picture is the view from the sosta on which we are parked for a day orもっと詳しく
Dry in the van
2024年9月8日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Terrible weather forecast for heavy rain. Went to the service in the monastery we visited yesterday and were warmly welcomed in accordance with ecumenical principles. Started to rain at 11.30 andもっと詳しく
Pavia and its trains
2024年9月9日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Pavia is a lovely town with mediaeval towers, the Viscontis' palace and more ancient churches than you could imagine. Highlights were maybe the pirates' church, the mermaids' church and the tomb of Stもっと詳しく
Washing machine, pool and sun
2024年9月10日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Very reasonable journey southwards to Tuscany. Passed Carrara which still seems to have some marble left in its mountains. Good drying weather too. The sunloungers by the lake have an excellent viewもっと詳しく
Pisa
2024年9月11日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
A tower, with a lean so pronounced that it is a surreal experience on the spiral stairs as you tip from the outside to the inside of the steps. This is confirmed in the wear on the marble stairs.もっと詳しく
Lovely Lucca
2024年9月12日〜15日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
San Michele with the amazing facade, the duomo with a similar but asymmetrical facade and Puccini's birthplace and museum complete with the sheet music I have had on my wall since I was in Tockwith.もっと詳しく
Volterra
2024年9月13日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Hour and a half from the last campsite, with shopping on the way. Windy hill town inland with a view as far as Corsica. Long trousers, jacket, and heating in the evening, but stayed dry. We could seeもっと詳しく
San Gimignano...footsteps of Tony Blair
2024年9月14日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Very well known, very full and very amazing! We are parked on an area sosta with lovely shrubs behind us and an olive grove beside us and a beautiful walk into town. A lot of towers and a lot ofもっと詳しく
San Gimagnano day 2
2024年9月15日, イタリア ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Went to mass in the collegiate surrounded by beautiful frescos - and plenty of people. After lunch on the church steps we visited the archaeological museum (see Etruscan statue) and St Fina'sもっと詳しく
Siena...learning about the Palio
2024年9月16日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
We arrived mid-morning along with a lot of other vans at a pricy campsite in Siena. By the afternoon we had used the washing machine, drier and swimming pool and were ready to explore Siena. Even theもっと詳しく
Still Siena
2024年9月17日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
A much cooler day with rain threatening, so more for indoor activities. We started with the much frescoed Museo Civico; the Maesta shown was the highlight.
If there's a tower, climb it. The Torre delもっと詳しく
Unexpectedly Arezzo
2024年9月18日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
We planned to go to Montepulciano to do some walking but the forecast of storms was rather discouraging. We have headed for Arezzo and booked for the famous frescos tomorrow. Today we admired the viewもっと詳しく
Arezzo again
2024年9月19日, イタリア ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Main aim today was to be at St Francesco for 12.00 for the booked visit to Piero della Francesca's frescos. They lived up to expectations despite our recent pretty solid diet of painted walls.もっと詳しく
Montepulciano
2024年9月20日, イタリア ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Another stunning view from the back of the van...Arrived in time to set of for an 18km walk courtesy of Komoot. That didn't include the significant walk up to the starting place. A certain amount ofもっと詳しく






















































































































旅行者Looks a bit wet out there...
Here too!!! [Fiona]
旅行者It's drier in Canterbury, up till now, at least.