Kevnjan's big adventure.

Kevnjan’s big adventure. Fri. 20th. Apr. Well, we left Italy today, around 12.30pm, entered Austria and said a fond farewell. We’ll miss Italy, it’s been wonderful, although for the last 2 days everyone has spoken German and it seemed as though we’d already left. We left behind our internet connection as well so it may be a day or so until we can post this. What a journey we’ve had today. Decided to get through Austria and into Germany where people are more camper van friendly. It cost us €16 to get through Austria!! We weren’t going to give them any more. The scenery, though, has been wonderful and we wouldn’t have missed it for anything. I think the best was between Bolzano and Campolasta, on a secondary road which satnav lady selected for us. She wasn’t to know that the pass was closed because of snow and the views were superb. Shame we had to turn back to Bolzano to find an alternative route!! So here we are, on a car park in a pretty German village called Flintsbach with the rain falling and a beef stew on the cooker. Well on the way home now, goodbye Italy and thanks, we’ll miss you. Time for wine. Sat. 21st. Apr. It stopped raining and we had a good night’s sleep. Poor Jan can’t cope with the noise the rain makes on the roof. Set satnav girl the task of finding us an ACSI campsite nearby and she came up trumps with place at Bad Feilnbach, a pretty Bavarian village in the shadow of snow capped mountains, with lush meadows, pretty houses and a shop which sells delicious ice cream, which Jan swears is better than the Italian variety!! As the man who owns the shop is Italian, I suppose we should have known it would be good. The sun came out this morning and we set up camp, put out the chairs and made coffee. It was warm enough to change into shorts, the big mistake was when Jan applied some sun cream. Over came the clouds!! I told her – but would she listen?? Anyway, we put long trousers back on and back came the sun. I spent much of the afternoon trying to do some pretty basic banking stuff on line but the Santander hardware was determined to thwart me. Three phone calls to England resulted in me being timed out when the staff went home for the weekend at 4pm. Am I aggravated?? You could say that. I have paid €9 for 2 hours internet access so I hope I can publish this with a minimum of fuss. Wish me luck. More in a day or two. We like Germany. Gunter’s on Monday.