Month: August 2020

Continuing with the quest to cover every mountain pass in Europe 🙄, we carried on north crossing the border again and landed in St Moritz. Parked about a mile out of town and we were out of breath the minute

Rather than risk driving back down the road, we got the ferry across to Varenna on the eastern side of the lake this morning. While we were waiting in the queue Guy nipped out to get some more photos –

What a day! Got up early and ready to set off in the rain. Guy reversed into the spot near the hosepipe ready to fill up with water. Unfortunately, he caught the side of the motorhome on a bike rack

The forecast rain and thunderstorms started around 9 am this morning. The campsite emptied faster than we could believe. It looked like there was a small window of opportunity between 11 and 2 when it was just drizzle. We decided

So glad we de-camped and came further up the lake this morning. We followed the coast road and it all suddenly became quite picturesque. The town of Stresa looked lovely but no campsites there really, so we’ve ended up a

Started off trying to avoid tolls this morning but soon gave up and got on the motorway. It was quite nice driving through the Aosta valley and the weather soon warmed up. We made our way towards the bottom of

The very energetic one was up at some ungodly hour this morning – he went down to the lake to get a photo of the sun rising. I managed three more snores before the quarry opposite started work. 😬 After

Downhill to Aosta this morning. A quick stop at Lidl then drain and fill with water. Things went wrong for me at this point, when I dropped the cap from the toilet chemical stuff down the toilet 🙄…makes a change

Had a bit of a Sunday lie in. It was remarkably quiet to say we were parked next to a train line. Swiss trains are almost silent! Retraced our steps along the valley back towards Martigny, but this time turning

After a clear night – see stars, we woke up to heavy rain and grey skies so we drove away from them. Had to go a long way around the mountains to get to the other side where the weather