It takes most of the morning to get everything packed up, buggy loaded etc, then plan a route to lead us out of Italy, so by the time we've emptied and watered the tanks it's midday when we check out of this site. The site has been very good; ACSI rates, good facilities, friendly staff and easy access to Venice. Nothing more required.

We've chosen to head through Austria in the general direction of Innsbruck, too far for one day so we find a site and an FA near Trento and decide on the site as it will have wi-fi so we can look up a few ideas for Germany. We also chose to indulge in the cost of the toll roads for both speed and comfort. Initially we head west toward Bologna and Verona, along busy, uninteresting roads, but once we turn north we see better scenery. The road runs mostly flat through a wide valley floor with tall limestone escarpments and peaks rising on both sides. Hectares of fruit trees, trained into flat, square canopies of growth spread across the valley floor. In other areas plantations zig zag up to the small towns that sit in the lowland parts, off-white stone houses and churches with reddish rooves. The steeples are very different from the Venetian ones of the last few days, here they have black, green or grey onion domes.

Between the valley sides we can see the Dolomites up ahead.

As we approach the end of the toll roads we guess what the fee will be for our 122 miles thereon. Nick guesses €38, Ali say she is more optimistic and thinks €25. Neither of us is near and when the amount appears on the cashier's screen we are stunned; €15.40 equal to about 9 litres of fuel, and we probably saved half of that by flat, steady speed motoring.

The last 8-10 miles take us out of the valley floor up into the mountains with steep hairpins and rock overhangs until we reach Laghi di Lamar camping, a peaceful looking little site in the valle de Laghi in in shadow of the Dolomites, and in particular Mont Paganella whose peak reaches to 2125 metres.