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Pompeii to Troia then Pineto - 280 miles |
We've had enough
sightseeing for now so it's time to start for home, albeit taking a
few days chillin' whilst we've got excellent weather. Today we're
heading sort of east towards the Adriatic coast, to a small town with
a free sosta that had been recommended by a Funster.
First off a visit to
the nearby Auchan to restock the fridge then onto the autostrada
heading for Salerno. Which went a bit wrong when we tried to avoid a
traffic holdup and ended up heading for Sorrento. Now this would have
been okay if we were going to the Amalfi Coast but that was
definitely not part of our plans so we got TomTom to sort us out. Ah
well it was an interesting half an hour!
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Troia |
A couple of hours run on
a decent autostrada, pausing for lunch at a service area, saw us
heading towards Foggia in Puglia province, a more rolling than
mountainous area. We turned off onto less well used roads (in other
words a little indifferent, some good some awful) to go cross-country
to Troia where we found the sosta with no problem. Unusually this
offered free electricity along with the normal services, however
apart from the electric it was all locked up! Not a problem though as
we had fully serviced the van before departure. We later discovered
the services were only open between 6.00 and 9.00 am!
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View from the sosta |
But it was really only
a one-night stopover and we wanted somewhere to properly chill for a
few days so Saturday we headed to the coast, by-passing Foggia and
joining the “Adriatic”, the main road following the coast
northwards. We had picked out an area north of Pescara where there
were four seaside ACSI campsites so headed out, only to find the
access road blocked by a badly parked car, however we found a back
way which took us round the town one-way system. But then we missed a
turn for the autostrada (again!) so a bit more backtracking – Terry
blames TomTom who only warned us of the turn with 35 metres to go but
at least put us back on track.
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Roundabout art |
A short run along the
motorway but needing fuel we turned off seeking better prices and
found a nice little town with reasonably priced diesel, LPG and a
Lidl for our lunchtime baguette. Thinking the non-motorway road may
be nicer we stuck to it for a while until Termoli where we stopped
for lunch in a huge empty carpark – think it was for the cemetery.
We were going to continue off-toll but realised that due to an
increasing number of small towns and villages it was going to take
considerably longer so reluctantly got back on the autostrada. A good
move really as we saved an hour of time for a cost of €7 which was
probably less than the cost of fuel.
We had chosen Pineto
Holiday Village at, erm, Pineto and after negotiating a few back
streets and a railway tunnel we found a very nice looking place right
on the beach. However the pitches they offered were not really
acceptable, the first right next to the busy railway line, as were
the second. The third was inaccessible to us so we said not to worry,
we'd move on. There then followed a brief conflab in the office after
which the receptionist showed us to a perfect pair of shady pitches
right next to the beach and close to the amenities. They did mumble
something about a small extra charge but did accept the ACSI cards so
we'll see. There was still railway noise but it wasn't as obtrusive –
this'll do us for a few days!
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