Back into Italy with Home exchange

As most of our trip was planned months ago it was some last minute organising of somewhere not too far to drive and a place we could experience living like the locals.
On the way to Castelnova ne’ Monti-Casale we happened across an outlet mall - huge - beside the motorway - so like everyone else we joined the lines OMG Gerald took a photo of where we parked so we could find the car later. The area was so big it appeared quite uncrowded. Gerald found a great saleswoman in a specialty coffee shop - who rushed to make him a coffee and of course made a sale - cups etc.
The owners of the house where we stayed gave us lots of local information we visited the Castel Roc - we chose not to climbRead more