The Office Is Closed
The Office Is Closed
Our visit to Lake Como didn’t get off to a particularly good start. We left Arona after a night of thunder, lightning and torrential rain followed by a morning not…
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After the smaller very pretty Lago d’Orta we were looking forward to the first of the big lakes – Maggiore – which didn’t disappoint except in one way, as parking…
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Leaving Turin around midday with the Italian lakes in our sights, we took a relaxed drive across the Piemonte region to Vercelli, the rice capital of Europe. Miles of paddy…
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Our motorhome journey saw us leaving the Sacro di San Michele and making for Turin – Torino a city we have all heard of but like so many of the…
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Our guide book promised us breathtaking beauty awaiting us in Avigliana so we drove there with great anticipation and parked in the aire, had lunch and got the bikes out.…
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Driving from France to Italy I was slightly nervous, just because you don’t know what to expect but it was fine. Mostly, I must admit having not been in Italy…
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After visiting Briançon we spent our first ever night wild camping. Surrounded by the mountains, clear skies with twinkling stars above us we felt totally free. The towns and cities…
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Buzz Laika is in Sassenage, parked in the motorhome parking area where we’ve spent two peaceful nights. Sassenage is a tranquil little town in the outskirts of Grenoble and a stone’s…
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The Alps to us and I guess a good many people are all associated with and about skiing, with snow covered mountains and ski resorts, so in truth we weren’t…
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After the Vosges we travelled to the department of Doubs, an area of the Franche Comte named after the river Doubs which rises in the South East of the region…
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