Mechanic troubles
I bet there are 2 questions here. Why are we moving north and why are we stopping in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, which is quite unremarkable compared to the other stops? Well, to answer the first question, we are aiming to be in Florence on the 1st of May, to met our friends RIccardo and Sonia, who...
Villa Pierotti
While in Seravezza the Chinese inverter decided to stop working. I have to say that every single piece of Chinese gear that I installed broke. The inverter was the last Chinese component to survive, as all the rest already failed during the test period of the van. I ordered a new non-Chinese inverte...
San marcello Pistoiese
04/04 This coming Saturday we are going to attend a talk about Astronomy for beginners at the local star Observatory, which is on the hills on top of San Marcello Pistoiese. Since we didn't stay at the first two spots because of the Internet we arrived here quite in advance. At the suspension bridge...
Poretta terme
April 3rd After leaving the wonderful Labante the plan was to stop in Riola to visit a castle, which unfortunately opens only during the weekends during this season. Not too bad, we did some grocery, bought some antihistamines for me and had a coffee before leaving for a bigger village, Porretta Ter...
Riola di Labante
Before we left, we promised ourselves that we wouldn’t drive or arrive at a new destination after dark. The reason is that with the dark it's difficult to assess how safe a place is, or how to level-park the van....Of course, we ended up arriving in darkness. I drove for an hour on a narrow, broken...