Woops....has it really been a month since I updated the blog? Blame camping in Italy, if you every want to relax and excape from all your worries and stress, try it!We left Rome on June 20th and spent the next two weeks at campsites in nothern Italy. We stayed in Eurocamp facilities, which means we had a choice of fully furnished tents (true!) or small "caravans" as they call them, which we would call RV's, but they aren't really mobile. The caravans have two bedrooms, a kitchen, a toilet and shower room, a front porch and, (in Piantele) a view of Lake Garda. The camp grounds have pools, activity programs, sailing, gelato, and we got to watch most of the FIFA world cup soccer action in the on-site pubsw. Truly, these places are like self-contained little cities, and there are more campers on site than there are permanent residents in the town of Creston! The only problem was that we did not improve our Italian much because most of the other campers were German, Swiss or Netherlanders.
Our entertainment was not along the lines of the usual museum-church-historical site visits, but it was a cultural experience non-the-less. We visited water parks and adventure parks, tried archery, rode bikes, swam, finished crossword puzzles and played board games, even attended a Medievel Theme night dinner that included knights in shining armour competing for the hand of a beautiful princess and all the "meade" we could drink.
Canada Day! I carried that flag all the way just for today!
John relaxes after beating me about 57 times in a row at the game "Connect Four". Observe the luxury living they call "camping" ---- fully equiped kitchen, comfy couch and all.
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