On Our Travels Again!!

I am sitting here on the edge of the Italian Alps (I think) in a Chambre d'hotes perched on a hill, central to my view is a huge bridge about 2 kms away which is the main highway to Roma, so not so romantic. We have arrived here via the South of France where we stayed four nights in two different locations in Provence, the views and the surrounding countryside is quite spectacular (sorry as an add on to my current view a bloody great train has just gone past about 1 km away). Back to Provence, we had a drama getting to our last B & B (would one of my blogs be complete without a drama??) getting to the house we took a very narrow lane which was for two way traffic up a very steep hill, our poor van which is 7/8 yrs old was really struggling especially in the low gears, we had to pull over for a car, of course it was rush hour going the other way on 'La steepe 'ill', and we ended up having to turn the car round and in the process hit a rather large boulder on the driver side wheel, this incurred a very unusual hissing sound ?puncture ?break line ?air conditioning the list went on and as the wheel was not going down and the metal bit on the wheel was badly buckled, it was obvious that was the problem, then we got to the actual drive of the house and it was a vertical drop, at least we hopped it wasn't the breaks, all fixed now and just to continue the car troubles we are experiencing an unusual knock on the right front wheel any ideas???? As we went to a mechanic in Italy and as its holiday time everywhere is closed.

Tomorrow we are walking the Cinqua Terra Trail which is 5 villages perched (as usual) on the side of a mountain with the sea below, it is quite a challenging walk up and down steps, in fact I don't think it will the walk that will be challenging but the weather, the last week we have had temps of up to 40 degrees plus. This has been difficult journey with the respect of directions, got lost a few times, I have been telling Terry we need a GPS for weeks now and he thinks I only wanted it as it is a gadget (he calls me gadget women, I call myself an up to date with technology women not a technophobe like Terry) so yesterday before we set off for Italy it was straight into our Harvey Norman/PC World equivalent called Darty and bought a TomTom which covers 42 European countries, that should be handy for next year me thinks!! So here we are with our GPS called Jane on our way to Le Spezia in Italy via Monaco and Monte Carlo and he is arguing with Jane and she got her own back and got us lost in Monte Carlo!!!!! To be continued.....

Hopefully photos to follow depends on time!

Bye for now

Carol