This morning is cooler and less humid than yesterday. Ali uses the site laundry to catch up on our washing. While we're waiting we plan some routes and places for the next few days. It's lovely to have a morning doing not very much. At midday we go up to the site access road, which is smooth, flat tarmac, so Nick can have a good walk after a few too many days sitting around, then we go into the restaurant for lunch. Our second meal there is every bit as go...

We have been told there is a market in Iseo town centre so we head of along the combined pedestrian/cyclepath again towards town. The villa we saw yesterday, and thought was semi-derelict but very attractive, has its big iron gates open and a car on the drive so obviously someone is either living there or renovating it. We find the market taking place under the watchful gaze of Garibaldi, whose statue towers above the stalls in the square. There is the usu...

From 06:30 we can hear the sounds of tents, caravans and motorhomes being packed up and moving out. There are still about 25 left when we get underway at 10:10 heading for Lake Iseo. We choose not to use the autostrada and hope for a scenic drive, but the road from Monza goes through suburb after suburb. In places the road is appalling; potholes, deformation and cracking, and the answer seems to be to put up uneven surface signs and 30 or 20kph signs. As the ...