Good sleep, woken by fishing boats unloading at 06:30. It is already 32C when we leave and the air-con is only just coping. We return to the camper shop as he sells rear light clusters for €58, when they are £85 in UK. One of ours is scruffy and corroded and N+G have one with a broken lens.

We take the scenic route around the Grado peninsula, at first flat fields of maize then later large wetlands with lots of birdlife. Grado is a long, spread out town of apartments and marinas but quite attractive, and we pass the camperstop some people in Senj told us about. A long bridge/causeway out of town crosses the delta rather like the one we took into Venice last year.

The wetlands become rich farming land as we pass Aquileia, a large and important set of Roman remains from the Augustus era. It was from here that opponents of Rome rebelled, escaped and set up their defences in Venice to become the next super-power.

We head on over pretty countryside to the Fattore Amico, an olive farm in Bellfiore, only to find it closed. Back in the village is a carpark with a couple of trucks parked for the night, that will do us. Nick W fits the new light clusters as we swelter in the 34C heat.

Mozzies are out with avengance in the night and we get bitten to pieces.