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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Amalfi Coast Italy

We set our navigator to "avoid toll"
We selected Amalfi coast and started out. Bloody hell, what a trip.
Some of the smaller Italian towns have very narrow street and during the morning are heavily congested.
We climbed up a pass road finally entering a tunnel. What we saw out of the tunnel was spectacular.



The Amalfi coast receives passenger liners who hit the coasts beaches, bars and restaurants.


We took a lunch on the waters edge then went for a swim.


Amalfi wasn't planned but Barry and Donna's daughter recommended it as a must see.

Refreshed we made a new plan.
We headed out and back inland looking for a suitable campsite in central Italy.
We went off the main highway and onto provincial roads followed by narrow towns and park roads. We climbed up onto a plateau at around 1000 metres and stopped near a small mountain town called Opi.

The region is a national park and has lots of real wildlife.
Below is a local photo.

There are also bears in the woods surrounding Opi.

The camp was really nice and to our surprise had a few campers in it. 
That night we heard the wolves howling in the distance.

The following day we said goodbye to Barry and Donna and started out for northern Italy.
Final view from Opi. 

We ended up in Perugia on a lakeside campground. 
That night we watch the football match between Italy and Germany. 
Many beers were had as the game went into extended time with a penalty shootout.

The following morning we walked the local town which was very pretty and quite old.


After our walk around we headed for Venice.




1 comment:

Jannie Aartsen said...

I see a picture of Pasignano sul Trasimeno. We've bin there in in 2014. Beautiful!