Adventures With Harvey

The Strawberry Farm Chance meetings leading to new friendships and the kindness of strangers are already among our most treasured memories from this trip.  You may recall in the last blog how we met Giovanni and his friends in Sperlonga and spent a delightful evening with them.  Well, our next planned stop was Naples and the surrounding area and when Giovanni heard this he was most insistent that we come and stay on his parents’ strawberry farm.  So along with Hendrik, Jacqueline and Frankie (our Dutch travel buddies and their little green motorhome) we accepted his kind offer and made our way to the farm. Getting there was an adventure in itself with at least two signs telling us Harvey wouldn’t fit.  However the old chap can suck his belly in when required and after walking through to check we wouldn’t get stuck we squeaked through without damage to any extremities. After a tour of the farm that evening we were treated to a feast which Anita has firmly stated...

Buongiorno Italia! Everyone I’ve ever met or spoken to about Cinque Terra has raved about it, and now we Travelling Woodies unreservedly include ourselves in that group.  This collection of 5 little fishing villages perched at various heights along the cliff-front on the Tuscan coast are a sight to behold – stunningly beautiful, quaint, and just so interesting to visit.  Normally you can walk between the 5 towns however due to slips and other track damage, a couple of the trails are temporarily inaccessible.  However, walking between three towns was plenty for us, especially as the train stops at all towns and large sections of the track are very steep and a reasonably demanding hike. Harvey’s parking place for the 4 nights we spent in this area was a campground not far from the town of Sestri Levanti, about half an hour by train to the first of the villages but connected on the same track to all 5.  First stop on day one was the town of Corniglia, the middle vil...