9th June update

Saturday 9^th June.

It’s a bit cooler this morning and the mossys don’t seem to be as big a problem. We are planning to move this morning and head north. We’ve got about 17 days left on the island so we will gradually  move along the coast from the west to the north east where the port is. We are aware that we haven’t done any tours of towns but to be honest we haven’t passed any of those beautiful medieval attractive villages that you get in France or Spain. I believe that might be because it wasn’t a very well populated island but the faschist government of the thirties tried to develop it. Consequently a lot of the towns have a relatively modern feel about them. We plan to head to Bosa today and see what that’s like but also take in Alghero, a town that was in Spanish hands and is very much Catalan influenced with road signs in Italian and Catalan.

We stopped at Bosa, a nice tourist resort, for an hour and walked around, Drove down the coast and stopped on some cliff tops for our lunch. Arrived at Alghero about 2pm, looks like a nice town, will probably cycle in later and have our evening meal there. Good site with excellent facilities (Camping Calik Blu) for once we have a decent electrical supply 16 amps. Yet another Dutch Rally on site, also our first fellow English couple in a caravan, we had a good chat for about an hour.

Friday 8^th June

Camping Is Arrutas is a good site but like the last one its plagued by the mosquito’s. I think it’s a regional thing as there are loads of big lagoons in the area and the weather has gone a lot hotter.  The best place was the beach and we spent several hours sat there reading. It really is a nice beach. It would seem that the site is being disinfected tomorrow morning at 5am.

Thursday 7^th

After two nights here we thought we’d move to another campsite. They treated the campsite again at 6am and when Barbara went to pay she was told that they are treating the entire area tonight and all of the lagoons so people have to keep their belongings inside their vans and keep all windows shut. This sounds like an aeroplane job so good thing we are leaving. It turns out that Pickles mate was abandoned by people on the campsite. The manager told her people are always leaving dogs at the site gates but they always find homes for them. This one is really lucky he runs around the site with the staff with another ex abandoned dog that looks a bit like a Springer. A great life.

We arrived at Camping Is Arrutas about 12 noon. It was only about 20 miles and is west of Oristano. Again it’s a good site 800 metres from a Caribbean like beach. Loads of motorhomes parked next to the beach probably ‘wild camping’ for free. I don’t know how they stay there all day with no shade….temperature over 35 degrees today but nice and cool on the beach with the breeze.

We loaded up the buggy/pram with all the beach gear and went off to the beach in the late afternoon. Barbara was a bit too enthusiastic with the pram pushing and Pickles fell out on his head twice. I now know why Tim and Sophie never got the First Class Honours degrees they should have got!

Wednesday 6^th June.

Beach at I Arruttas

6am a man in a tractor pulling a trailer with something resembling one of those machines that shoots tennis balls out drove around the site. The disinfectant shot out about 10 feet. No change in the number of mossys. Still a good site with excellent facilities. Sat around the pool in the late afternoon sun. Pickles has a new friend, a little dog off the campsite.