LIVORNO TO ANCONA The journey across Umbria to reach our desired stopover at Castigliano was quite uneventful as we stuck to the motorways for damage limitation with these crazy Italians. Despite driving close to Florence and Pisa, (two places we would love to return to without 7.40 metres of metal behind us!) we couldn't see a lot of city life from the road but we did have a wonderful view of acres and acres of sunflowers and my lovely driver obligingly made u...

CORTE TO LIVORNO We woke up to the birds with plenty of time before we wanted to leave, so I did a bit of cold water public sink washing, because that's what you do, even when you are glamping! We hit the open road back to the port around 8h00, stopping a few times for refreshments. Having learned not to stop anywhere precarious to admire the view (as I was "honked" by a lorry driver the other day and almost fell off the wall with shock from where I was taking...