What has Italy ever done for us? Well, the Romans for one. A great one at that. Worth multiple holidays and a lifetime of study. You would have guessed that we would spend a good chunk of our time here wouldn't you? Well, you would have guessed wrong. We did a mad dash across the top of Italy to cover the space between Trieste and the south of France as quickly as possible. In doing so maximising our time sunning ourselves in the Riviera. Great.
The morning after arriving at the campsite began again with the sound
of Crickets. Our constant backing track from this point onwards in the journey. Not quite as annoying as you get used to them.
We left around half 9 with the aim to see both Trieste and Koper. Unfortunately Koper was so full we were unable to find an appropriate parking space near the centre, though we are told by Ma and Pa Ford that it is a lovely place. We then headed off to Trieste. Which was nearly as full as Koper... nearly. We found somewhere to park and had a stroll around the town. It was nice. We had our first (and it turned out only) bowl of Italian pasta and saw the docks and old town square. A quick snippet of history, both Slovenia and Italy had claims over Trieste after WW2 and it could quite easily had been a prospering Slovenian port town not Italian.
We left Trieste after a couple of hours and made a monumental decision. Though the potential for Italy was great we both were looking forward to France too much. So we aimed to try something new, two days of driving due west on the surprisingly good Italian Motorways to eat our first Baguette two days earlier than planned. And it worked. We drove. We slept at a service station carpark (for free, with showers!). And we crossed the French/Italian border mid day on Friday 13th July. Lucky for us!
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