Provincia di Alessandria

Tea over here isn’t tasting great for some reason so we are drinking more coffee than we do at home. For example, this morning I walked into the village to get pastries for breakfast and had a quick cappuccino at one of the cafes. Then back to the campsite for a second coffee with breakfast. Then we went out for a walk at 11.30ish so we stopped for another cappuccino before starting the walk proper.

The coffee here is very good.

The walk was a weird one. Quite steep uphill for the first half. The ground underfoot was very wet, a bit like we were walking on old stream beds that had turned into paths. The rock here is a very pale shale (almost white) and water seems to sit on top of it rather than soaking in or draining away. Sara isn’t a great fan of wet paths because she associates them with frogs (which she has a bit of a phobia about). Coupled with me being paranoid about ticks and snakes, we made a right pair!

We stopped for lunch at a church on a hill - which we shared with a couple of friendly lizards.

Then back to the campsite for a hot afternoon by the pool. It is so quiet here. We are the only people on our bit of the campsite and the only people using the pool. It is blissful. There were three other van s on our field last night but they all moved on this morning - must have been something we said. We took the opportunity to move our van slightly to get more sun in the morning.

Now out for a pizza at Bar Pizzeria Garbus in the village.Read more