Wednesday 20th - Saturday 23rd June update.

Saturday 23^rd June

Scorching again, I think we are starting to look forward to getting into France for the cooler weather. Got the mini bus to the beach with Pickles, the beach was quite busy even at 9am. As Barbara said it might be better getting down here for 8 o clock to get some cooler weather. Returned to site at 12 noon to avoid the real heat.  Got an internet card for 3 days unlimited so we can listen to the BBC radio 4 progs almost permanently. Sorry to hear about the floods in Lancs.

Friday 22^nd June.

Another hot one in the mid 30’s. We headed off to the beach at 9am with Pickles in his pram and enjoyed a good 3 hours there. On the way back the shuttle bus driver pulled over to tell us we can take Pickles in the van, we declined his offer on this occasion but told him he’d try it tomorrow.

Later we went to the bar to watch the Germany game, unfortunately we couldn’t get a table as each one was covered with a towel. We got two chairs and put them right in front of the telly.

Thursday 21^st June

When we woke up we could tell it was going to be  another hot day. We liked the site but noticed that they were quite strict about dogs on the beach. Dogs aren’t allowed on any Sardinian beaches but nobody had bothered us before and we had spotted other dogs on most of the beaches we’d visited. There was no chance for Pickles to cool down and we were disappointed that even though we’d been given 10% discount with our ACSI card we were being charged 24 euros a night with only 3 amps of electric. It was time for a quick move. At 9:30am we drove along the coast, loads of lovely coves and rocky headlands, the beaches were already filling up. I had read about the nearby Costa Smeralda that was known to be the playground of the rich. Apparently the Aga Khan had invested billions of pounds into developing the area in the late 60’s so we headed there (with no intention of staying ).  This sure is a delightful area but did not accommodate people of our financial status. They may have well have had signs up saying “Only the rich can stay here”. I suppose when the Romanian Campsite manager imposes his revolutionary ideals upon all of Sardinia then maybe we can take back the Costa Smeralda from the Agha Khan. In the meantime all we could do was shout out across to the expensive boats “we know where Shergar is”.

We then drove the short distance to Olbia where we disembarked from the ferry on May 12^th. We had therefore completed our circuit of the island. We found an ACSI site with ACSI rates (16 euros a night) just south of Olbia. This turned out to be a cracker of a site. High trees, artificial shade, high hedges for privacy. Although it was 1000 metres from the beach a 9 seater transit shuttles you back and forth to an amazingly beautiful beach.

We tried the bus ride late in the afternoon. It is driven by a young bloke who is good fun, again we couldn’t understand him but everyone was laughing and singing on both legs of the journey.

Wednesday 20^th June update.

Last night I had tried to lift the despondency that prevailed within the bar area of the campsite, this had nothing to do with the football results but more to do with Lidl burning down. It was now time for some positive thinking so I laid the seeds of this by suggesting to one or two people that Lidl’s should now be a place for cheaper ‘smoke damaged’ goods. This generated quite a bit of interest and a few people asked for examples but I could only offer them the prospect of loads of smoked ham. I think there may be a few visitors to Lidl.  We left the site and headed for the north east coast. We took Barbara’s advice and found an LD supermarket in Arzachena, a worthy substitute for Lidl. Stocked up we then went to a campsite just north of Cannigione called Camping Capo d’orso. A decent enough site in a small bay.