Wednesday
Up early-ish to move on. We hit the road after emptying nasty stuff and
filling with clean water, with a vague plan to head towards Maggiore.
We found a large supermarket with a café attached with free WI FI, so
after a big shop we got coffee and tried to research some stopovers. A Dutch guy
at Orta had given us details of an App which listed 1000's of stopovers for
motor homes. So we downloaded it and we got details of possible places around
Maggiore. Trouble is when we got to the locations via tiny lanes, 1.6m high
bridges etc., we found nothing! We eventually pulled over and hooked up to internet
and found a sosta at a town called Gavirate on Lake Varese.
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| Taking the evening sun at Lake Varese |
When we got there
we found it was a lovely place. Very Italian and not much tourism - unlike
Maggiore. The lake was not for swimming in however, the main activity being
rowing. The world under 23 rowing championships are here next week. Pleasant
evening a walk through the town and a meal and Yahtzee at the van.
Miles today Orta San Guilio – Gavirate 63
Sosta 10.50 euros
Thursday
We are finding it a bit unusual
being so close to a lake and not being able to swim (only about 50 m from the
shore). However today was a lazy morning at the van reading and sun bathing. It
is now really hot. The lake had a great cycle track all the way round, so the
afternoon was spent cycling the 28 km track. Forgot to mention that before the lazy
morning Jo went for a run and I cycled with her. Jo found an achitechtural
salvage yard which she wanted to go back to which we did later looking for bargains - none to be had however, as things were very expensive!
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| Great Ice Cream |
It also
transpired that the Sosta was right next to the Australian Institute of sport
European Training Centre, with loads of very fit looking young Australians, most appearing to be there for the upcoming rowing championships. After dinner we went for walk to get ice cream from a shop we had spotted earlier - and what great ice cream it was.
Miles nil.
Sosta 10.50 euros.
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