We picked a route from the road map which indicated that it would be a red route all the way to the campsite, having experienced narrow yellow and white italian roads before. The TomTom then told us it would take 4 hours, and it was correct, the drive was long, hot, narrow and bendy as well as steep. Rebecca was a little sick along the way, (but we were prepared) and we made it to the first campsite, but there was no room at the inn, so to speak (and it also turn...

Having spoken to the Harris' on the trip we dug out a couple more books and headed south to Parma and stopped in one of the many free motorhome stops in Europe (Typically they are car parks) to the north of Parma. This was really just a night halt and getting in to the town would prove tricky and we were heading over to the Cinque Terra sites. This proved to be a good stop over althrough the night was hot. (Day time temps had reached 35 degrees and it did not coo...

Here we needed a break, so we stopped for 6 nights. On arrival at the site we met up with another English Family (Tracy and Ian Harris) that where heading up through Italy towards to the UK having taken a year out to travel around Europe. The campsite had all the standard facilities open and specifically a pool where Adrian and Rebecca played with the children (Georgia and Jade) and cooled off. We had a meal around the motorhome of the Harris' please as we were t...

We caught the ferry across Lake Como and headed north as we wanted to avoid the traffic and chaos around milan. This turned out to be a long drive through the Italian Alps (Rox had downloaded some of the tracks from the Italian Job (Michael Caine version) so we were singing along. In the alps itself some one tried to kill themelves by running a stop sign infront of us, but we missed him. We later wished we had hit him as his driving skills infront of us were part...

We packed up and headed over to Lake Como as we had heard recommendations about this place, but this recommendations obviously apply to people not in a motorhome. We made a couple of mistakes in planning which did not help the process. When we looked at the map we though we would go up the edge of Lake Maggoire towards the swiss border and then had across to Lake Como. At once it became obvious that this region of Italy did not close down on a Sunday, the roads w...