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Lake Garda
 This
was our first night in Italy. We camped next to Lake Garda, which is
close to the foot of the Alps.
 Gary,
our comms man, hard at work at the campsite on the
shores of Lake Garda.
Pisa
Damian, Dominic and Gary
doing their bit for the leaning Tower of Pisa.
1. Gary
and Damian with Kate and her sons Tomas and Luis. 2. Piero and Claudio.
We stayed
with Kate, Piero and their family for a
few days in Meldola, not far from Florence in central Italy.
We passed
the city of Orvieto where the Giro di Italia finished this week. It
is an old Roman fort set high up on the mountain.
Rome
Our
daytrip to Rome included a visit to the Vatican city and the Coliseum.
Sorrento
 We
visited the lovely peninsula just below Naples and camped at Sorrento
for 2 nights. The coastline is really beautiful and a reminder of Chapmans
Peak in Cape Town, South Africa. It is well worth a visit on a motorbike
as the road is cut into the mountain and snakes its way around the peninsula
from Sorrento through Positano and Amalfi to Solerno.
 Another
spectacular view from a hill top just outside the town of Sorrento. Over looking
the bay of Sorrento. It doesn't get any better than this!!!!!
 Our
stay at Sorrento included a visit to Mount Vesuvius, a live Volcano
not far from Naples and the famous Roman city of Pompeii. You can see
the volcanic smoke rising up behind us.
We were fortunate to visit this
ancient Italian village, built into the side of a mountain at sunset on
our way to the south.
 In
order to be as close to the early ferry from Italy to Greece, we slept in
this misty farmers wheat field. Mosquitoes were a
nightmare!!!
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