Journey back home

Well it's finally time to go home🙂 Franco is not jumping of joy.He would like to go fishing everyday but I always like to come back.
We're taking it easy since it's more than 1000km. 
First sleepover Campomarino close to Parco Nazionale di Gargano. A small sea side town with long sandy beaches.
Next stop a small regional Park outside Pesaro, popular for bicycle ride amongst locals.
We normally drive 250 km a day, since 80km/h is Rocco's comfortable zone.
We did a little stopover in Chioggia, gracious city situated on a lagoon with Venice nearby it's a less touristy option for a daily sightseeing trip.
Than before arriving at Sandrigo to do some minor works on camper we stayed in Valstagna. Wanted to visit Grotte Oliero, unfortunately they were closed but it stays on our list. It has rained a lot in the north of Italy and you can see that Brenta river was getting big and powerful.
On our way to Piacenza we passed Mantova and again we promised ourselves to visit next time. Especially to taste those delicious tortelli di zucca mantovana!😉
For the weekend we will hang around Piacenza, as Monday we have some errands to run, so we thought to visit friends in the meantime. We're having lazy Sunday grill at our friends Pippo and Monica.
It will be hard to literally get home as we heard that between Bobbio and Ottone there are 11 traffic lights imposed for road works. So it seems it will be a never ending journey home😃.
Apart from organisational things and some small house painting jobs we will be staying home just enough time to complete those tasks and than the chapter 2 of our adventure will commence!!! Stay tuned!



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