Wednesday, March 21, 2007
San Marco Wednesday 7th March
We decided it was time to head for Greece, to do this we needed to go back to mainland Italy and work our way to the heel. We spent a long gruelling day driving across the bottom of Italy, after having a bad night due to the fluty call of the Scops Owl. Finding campsites open in the south of Italy was proving a bit of a challenge, but phoning ahead we found one that was open, however, when we arrived they told us they were in actual fact closed! Luckily they knew of a campsite at San Marco that was open and was only 8km away. We followed the signs and turned off onto a dubious looking track, after following this track for about 3KM we were becoming nervous about the lack of any camping signs and the impossibility of turning our nearly 13meter long outfit around. We finally came across two big silver gates that were most definitely shut! With much trepidation we rang the button on the intercom and with relief heard a garbled reply and then the gates opened. We jumped back in the car and drove the caravan in before they could change their mind. We were the only ones staying in this fabulous little site and were afforded beautiful views across the surrounding countryside. Our only regret was that we couldn’t stay here any longer as we were just using it as a stop over.
