10th May 2012

Thursday 10^th May.

Well after 2 fun packed, energy sapping nights at Camping Riva it was time to move on. In all honesty this was a nice site with lots of shade and a quiet location. Fun was not on the agenda for the handful of Dutch and German campers occupying the site however they were provided with a number of comical moments provided by the only two English campers on the site who pushed their arthritic dog around in a Mothercare buggy, bought on ebay for 99p. The climax to the event was when it came to fold up the buggy and put it away. It doesn’t matter how many thousands of miles you push your kids in one of these, or how you get them through schools and university’s whilst at the same time managing your own career……..you will never master the technique of folding one of these contraptions up.

So what of the two days here: as stated relaxing and quiet but not a real holiday resort. We took a bike ride to the nearest seaside town of  Bocca di Magra. This reminded me of a very tiny version of St Tropez, a few bars and restaurants etc along with a 50yard black beach  but dominated by the huge expensive boats in the harbour. In fact the town is situated at the entrance of a river that has along its entire length numerous boat marina’s and boat yards.

We moved off towards Livorno, a sea port where we get the ferry to Sardinia on Saturday. The site we chose is called Camping Lago Le Tamerici and is unknown to anyone living near to it. We know this because we asked everyone who lived within a one mile radius of the site and everyone sent us in a different direction! A great site on the side of a fishing lake, the temperature started to rise to mid 70’s the holiday is really kicking in now.

I was intending to add photographs to this blog but for some reason the blog template and instructions are in Italian, this makes it difficult to work out where and how to make further entries to the blog. Perhaps as my Italian gets better I will find out how to include photo’s.