Wednesday 3 October 2018

Loving the Lagos

Today we start our tour of the lakes.

After an unsuccessful attempt at parking at Orta San Guilio on Lago D’Orta we are now at a very comfortable camping place above Lago Maggiore in Ogebbio. The place itself is great with our own electricity and water and a view over the lake for 20 euros a night. The access to it was another story. It was so narrow I decided to run ahead to see if we were at the right place. After almost giving myself a resapiratory arrest from running up the almost vertical road I found the site at the top (YES TOP) of a very steep and narrow hill.

After I returned, breathless, to the van, Mr Fluffy drove Dickie gingerly up the road to the site (only mildly damaging one of the wing mirrors on a concrete post). We’re currently recovering from the trip with a nice glass of Spanish Rioja. We are determined to stay outside in this gorgeous weather even though there are bugs everywhere. They seem to have a penchant for the fluffy one’s wine - mine not so much.
View over the lake from Dickie

Some Fluffy stats for you:

Mileage this trip - just over 1500 miles
MPG - 31 mpg according to the van’s trip computer (pretty good with our 3 litre engine pulling 3.5 tons over the Alps).
Tele - still getting British tele on ASTRA 2 so I can watch Strictly - YAY!! This may become more difficult as we head further south - BOO!



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