We are back as roaming tourists again. We left the site at Bolsena yesterday
morning. Although we enjoyed our week there very much we ended up leaving on
bad terms with the campsite. When you check in at a site they obviously need
some ID so that they can take your details etc. and they usually take your
passports. What you can get instead is a CCI card, credit card size, that
has your details on it, i.e. name address passport number, and they use that
instead. This is what we did when we arrived, but when we went to check out
they did not have our card and could not find it anywhere. They had lost it!
Can you believe it? Typical Italian efficiency! Most campsites take your CCI
or passports etc. and put them in an envelope just for your details and then
into a drawer. This site seems to just lump all the passports etc. for the
same day arrivals into one folder, and thus our CCI card must have ended up
in someone else's passport and vanished. We were not impressed, but what can
you do.
Whilst I am in the mood, when we left the site we headed to Orvieto about
20km North of Bolsena to have a look around the old medieval town. After
driving around trying to follow intermittent parking signs we eventually
found the parking out of town that you could use. There was a huge car park,
FREE, for cars and coaches, FREE, but next to it was an area just for
motorhomes. It was an organised area with electric points if you wanted to
stay the night, but just to park there they wanted 2 and hour. I think you
can read my thoughts. We were tempted to park in the free parking but you
can bet your socks that we would get a ticket or clamped. People say Britain
is a rip-off, think again.
Anyway, we ended up leaving Orvieto and headed back to Lago Trasimeno and
the old town of Castiglione del Lago. We only stayed a night there and went
into the town yesterday afternoon to have a look around. It's a very nice
little old town that used to be the dominant town on the lake. It is not
very big but very nice apart from a couple of the shops that are a bit
touristy and ply for trade out on the streets.
Today we headed a bit further east and north to Gubbio, about 35km north of
Perugia. Gubbio is another pretty town perched on a hillside and if the
weather improves, has been a bit wet and windy today, we will venture in
there later on this afternoon for a look. I don't think we will make it
around all of the 78 churches!
From here, probably tomorrow, we will head south of Perugia to Spoleto,
another old town, and then into the Sibillini mountains to the east.
Ciao
M&S
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