Sestri LevanteTuesday 30th June 2009 Parked in a Campground after winding our way up a hill, to find it was perched on the side of the hill and all terraced. Not too bad in itself, but our site was right next to the entrance and overlooked the pool.Not that bad I suppose, but the pool was full of young kids skylarking around so we decided to wait until it was quieter. When we did finally go down we found out that it closed at 7.00 and we had only 10mins to enj...

Sunday 28th June Today we packed up and left Rome, we didn't stay long enough to see everything, but enough to get our fill of old Roman ruins and the newer Roman architecture etc. We headed north on a smaller road towards Siena. This was a lovely drive through hillsides covered with vines, olives and fields of yellow sunflowers.A lovely drive through the Tuscan landscape (The landscape of romantic films and books), that felt a little like home. Some parts it ...

Tuesday 16th: We woke up about 5 am and then went and sat out on the deck which was rather nice with the early morning light. While we waiting to dock we met a group from New Zealand. Three of whom were living and working in England and they gave us some suggestions of places to visit for our first few days in the south of Italy. After driving off the ferry we decided to head straight out of town and down the coast towards Monopoli, and after finding a campsite...