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Dubrovnik Ferry Port
October 13, 2025 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Next stop Italy 🇮🇹
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Masseria de Pantaleone
October 14, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
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Matera
October 15, 2025 in Italy ⋅ 🌧 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.Read more
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Wild Paestum Camper Park
October 17, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
A very nice little camper park we found here. Only €18.00 a night in October and just a few minutes walk to the beach through the woods 🌳 just for extra interest when you get to the beach there is a old WW2 bunker to explore.Read more
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Paestum Archaeological Park
October 19, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
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Camping Zeus Pompeii
October 21, 2025 in Italy ⋅ 🌧 18 °C
Destination Reached and it is slinging it down with rain. 🌧️ ☔️ Hope it cheers up in the next few days but the forecast is not good. Hopefully the weather will change while we are parked here complete with our own lime tree. €31.00 a night right outside the Archaeological park of Pompoeii.Read more
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Herculaneum
October 22, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 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.Read more
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Pompeii Archeological Park
October 24, 2025 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 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.Read more
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Ronciglione Camper Park
October 25, 2025 in Italy ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
€20.00 a night with all services on this modern site with the most helpful man (Nicola) that you could wish to meet. The site is situated close to the hillside town of Ronciglione and within biking distance of a lake for leisure activities.Read more
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Civitavecchia ferry port (Rome).
October 27, 2025 in Italy ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Next stop Spain
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Camping El Toro Azul
October 31, 2025 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 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.Read more
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Argelés-sur-Mer
November 8, 2025 in France ⋅ 🌬 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!Read more
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Collioure
November 9, 2025 in France ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
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La Cité de Carcassonne
November 11, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 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”.Read more
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Royan
November 16, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
A short weekend stop here on the CCP camper stop close to the centre of Royan. Once again we have been lucky with the weather so we are off for a ride along the coast and lunch by the sea 🍕.
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Nantes
November 18, 2025 in France ⋅ ⛅ 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.Read more
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Mont Saint-Michel
November 21, 2025 in France ⋅ ☀️ 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.Read more
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Honfleur
November 23, 2025 in France ⋅ ☁️ 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.Read more
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Calais Ferry Port
November 25, 2025 in France ⋅ 🌬 9 °C
Next stop Home
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Trip end
November 25, 2025