Our 4,000 mile road trip in Margot the Baileys Autograph Motor Home. We drove from home in Dorset (Cherbourg-Poole ferry) and across France to the Mont Blanc tunnel, then spending almost three weeks touring Italy, visiting Venice, Rome, Pisa, Ugento, Pompeii, Paestum… as many amazing beaches as we could, and eating a ridiculous amount of gelato along the way. It was the experience of a lifetime.
Our first planned trip on arriving at Camping Dei Pini was to Paestum the following morning (no, we’d never heard of it either, but the Rough Guide says it’s definitely worth an explore). Paestum (or Poseidonia...
Forcing ourselves onwards from the bubble of Ugento (we hadn’t left the Riva Di Ugento site once to explore the surroundings, though we know there are caves and grottos to see on fabulous boat...
After a forced rest day (thanks to the strikes on the public transport – we decided it wasn’t worth battling and risking getting stuck!), we were up early, ready to tackle our trip into Rome....
We parked Margot, ran through our by-now slick set-up drill… And then stopped. We breathed in the tang of the pine, the salt of the ocean in the air… and I could see the hunched...
Up bright and early, we were at Camping Della Serenissima‘s reception office by 8.30 to buy our bus tickets into Venice for our totally-just-winging-it trip to see Venice In A Day. The bus stop is right...
When the lovely people at Bailey of Bristol offered us the soon-to-be-christened Margot for an Italian Family Road Trip of a Lifetime – 4,000 miles in the lovely Baileys Approach Autograph 765 Motorhome – we’d never even set...
There was an urgent tug on my dress, and two big serious eyes peered up at me with a worried expression “Mummy, the rocks over there, look! There, look! They’re smoking! It IS going...
I gazed through the envelope of viewing space in the messy gauze covering, and felt my heart actually give a double thump. There he was! Cave Canem! The mosaic dog that had astonished my...
