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  • Peter Kitson
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Pompeii or Bust

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Masseria de Pantaleone

    14 ottobre 2025, Italia ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    We arrived in Italy bang on time (19.00) hrs and made our way through the Italian evening traffic to our chosen park up for the night. Even joined in with a bit of horn beeping and swearing!
    Today we find ourselves at Camping Masseria de Pantaleone close to the ancient town of Matera. €26.00 a night with electric and a free shuttle bus into the old town. What a great find this one is.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Matera

    15 ottobre 2025, Italia ⋅ 🌧 14 °C

    The free shuttle bus from the campsite dropped us off on the edge of the old town and off we went exploring. The town is well known for the rock houses that were occupied until the fifties, we also visited a rock church but photography was not allowed inside. The old town revealed itself as a labyrinth of steps and alleyways and if you happen to be a fan of 007 films then you are in luck as some of the scenes from “No time to die” were filmed here.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Paestum Archaeological Park

    19 ottobre 2025, Italia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Didn’t know this was here until we arrived at the camper park but has proved to be a great day out. Three large Greek temples with the temple of Athena estimated to have been constructed at around 500Bc. These temples are now in the company of the remains of an old Roman town with many of the features easily recognised. Ampitheatre, Forum etc.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Herculaneum

    22 ottobre 2025, Italia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    If like ourselves you take the train to Ercolano to visit the Archaeological park beware of two things, whoever said that the walk from the station to the site was 300m had a very good imagination and secondly make sure you get on the correct train back again. If it had not been for the assistance of a very nice Italian man who took us back to our campsite in his car I think we would still be wandering the suburbs of Pompeii.🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️🫏
    Back to business. Herculaneum being much smaller than Pompeii is a great introduction to the area. Only about 10 acres in total it makes for a pleasant wander amongst the ruins of the ancient Roman town which is generally better preserved than its big brother.. it is believed that most of the residents fled the area before it was too late but that is not so down in the boat sheds where grim discoveries were made of some of the residents that took shelter, not really understanding of what was coming their way. Although the skeletons are models they have been replaced in the same positions that the originals were found.    Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Pompeii Archeological Park

    24 ottobre 2025, Italia ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

    “Mahoosive” and if you need reminding then that is bigger than big! That describes this place well. It didn’t seem to matter how many articles I read about the size of the excavations here I still found myself blissfully unaware of how large it really is. We attempted to follow a tour in the book that Trevor lent us but the map was better than my skills at reading it so soon got fed up up with that and just wandered to the bits where the biggest crowds were gathered. I seriously think that you could spend a week here just trying to take it all in.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Camping El Toro Azul

    31 ottobre 2025, Spagna ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    Another ferry crossing arriving on time. Seas were a bit rough overnight but come the next day all was calm. ⛴️
    After disembarkation it was a 40 min drive north of Barcelona to our pre booked campsite ⛺️. Once again in the evening traffic but a much more pleasant experience than Italy, Didn’t beep the horn at all. We will stay here for a while in the Spanish sun, ride the bikes out to the beach, no doubt have lunch somewhere and try the Pizza restaurant at the entrance before heading off to France.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Argelés-sur-Mer

    8 novembre 2025, Francia ⋅ 🌬 15 °C

    The weather on the road to France amounted to rain with a bit of thunder and lightning chucked in just to make it interesting, but it didn’t take to long too find our next parking spot close to the beach in Argelés-sur-Mer.
    The old town here is a nice place to have a wander around on a nice sunny afternoon and the beach is magnificent but it has a dark side.
    As the Spanish civil war ended France found itself flooded with refugees and the beach here became a reception area for anybody fleeing Franco’s troops which according to the memorial became a concentration camp for 160,000 people which of course meant death from hunger, cold and disease followed for the unlucky!    Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Collioure

    9 novembre 2025, Francia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    Riding out of the Camper Park on our bikes and looking to our right we could see the snow capped mountains in the distance which all seemed a bit bizarre as we were dressed in shorts and t-shirts under a hot sun. Thirty minutes or so later we were wandering around the seaside town of Collioure eating ice cream and admiring the surroundings along with a few hundred other people.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    La Cité de Carcassonne

    11 novembre 2025, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    The Fortified city of Carcassonne is as you would expect on a hill ( good defensive strategy) and the small effort involved with getting there on our bikes was worth it. The usual amount of gift shops, cafe’s ☕️ and restaurants are in attendance, in fact the one in the photos supplied our lunch and the chance to get warm from the biting wind. We spent some time wandering between the walls and in the streets taking photos and came away thinking “that was a good day out”.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Nantes

    18 novembre 2025, Francia ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C

    We are starting to make our way towards Calais and then home but a stop at Nantes to see the Mechanical Elephant that is part of Les Machines de Lille project was on the way for us and it certainly didn’t disappoint. 🐘 Looks like the city is gearing up for Xmas as well.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Mont Saint-Michel

    21 novembre 2025, Francia ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C

    Carrying on with our theme of heading for home we are now parked up close to the Normandy coast and the Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, sitting out the cold and the brief flurry of snow until a break in the weather allows us to go visiting and today (Friday 21st) is the day. Bright sunshine forecast all day but still very chilly.Leggi altro

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  • Peter KitsonPompeii or BustViaggiatore

    Honfleur

    23 novembre 2025, Francia ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

    The weather is not very pleasant here this weekend with plenty of wind and rain and temperatures down to 2 degrees overnight. The weather app seems to think that a feels like temperature of -5 degrees is more appropriate but nether mind as once again we have sat in the warm of the motorhome and waited for a small break in the weather before heading off into town for a look round.Leggi altro

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  • Fine del viaggio
    25 novembre 2025