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9. Onwards into France and homeward bound ❤️

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The weather was holding up as we arrived in France - our last few days of the trip. In fact, it was almost getting too hot again! Decided to head to Eygalieres in The Alpilies (Provence) - one of our old favourites, somewhere familiar and comfortable 😃 It’s a stereotypically beautiful small French village, surrounded by the stunning Alpilies countryside of olive groves and limestone hills. And what makes it work for us is the campsite right in the centre of the village - a bit on the basic side, but does the trick 🤣 It’s a lovely small town to wander around, and with a couple of quintessentially French bars, some lovely restaurants, and a fabulous artisan boulangerie, the perfect place to spend a couple of days.  Not really talked much about ongoing van related problems in this blog so far, but something which has been causing us a bit of a headache has been our electric hook up lead. It chose this time to stop working - again 😢 Despite feeling stressed and knackered after the d...
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8. Onwards through Italy - avoiding the floods!

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Although the weather had started to settle a bit now, the aftermath of Storm Boris was still very apparent, with extensive flooding causing significant problems in the Emilia Romagna and Marche regions - both places where we’d hoped to visit. Although not torrential in nature, the rains were now starting to move westwards, so again it was tricky identifying where to head to next. In the end we plumped for a small place in eastern Tuscany, just north of Arrezo - which looked fairly dry 🤞 Agricamping Borgo Agna was our next base. Came across this quite by chance when a different place we’d tried to stay at was full, and the owner Stefano pointed us in this direction. A different Stefano was our new host here 😃 Although the town itself was fairly nondescript, just an agricultural / residential sort of place, the agricamping that Stefano had created was beautiful. Set within a large expanse of olive groves, we were able to park and set up camp where we wanted to. Keeping the numbers low ...
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