Lake Maggiore, 22 May 2009

A relatively short drive of 110 miles yesterday of flat easy freeway going, the most trucks we’ve seen so far on the roads from Turin to Lake Maggiore. The scenery was quite different again as we drove through rice fields under flooded irrigation and also their haymaking season is well underway. We noted that the paddocks are still quite small, on paddock produced only 3 round bales while others had up to around 25 of bales and silage.

Dinner was ‘at home’ last night.


We went for a drive this morning. Parts of Europe had a public holiday yesterday and are making a 4 day weekend of it. The place is humming with people and vehicles from Germany and other countries. From our humble abode last night, we could have been in much better, not that far up the road as you can see. The temperature is in the low 30s again today for the 4th day in a row.




Tomorrow we hit the Simplon Pass and the car train through the Furka Pass, a 20k tunnel. We hear there has been quite a dump of snow there, making driving impossible, hence the train.

Bienvenuto Ciao Ciao for now