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Author: Rog
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It was still raining in Cremona as we packed up and left. The drive today wasn’t too long – just 75 minutes East to Mantua. Mantua was made famous by a poet from the UK, sending Romeo to Mantua after he killed Tybalt. Mantua’s golden age was already old when Shakespeare was writing Romeo and…
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We made a fairly early start from Roverdo. We left mainly to avoid the faff of paying for part of an hour but it helped that the weather in Switzerland wasn’t great and were keen to get into Italy. Of course, you’d have to have a very keen occhio to tell Italian speaking Switzerland from…
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The Czech brandy let me somewhat tired the next morning so we broke out the emergency bacon for a sandwich to pep ourselves up before the 4×4 training. We had one rasher that wouldn’t fit in the pan There was a lot of it and the descriptions would tend towards repetitive descriptions of holes and…
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The overnight park at La Ferme des Sanglochons was not great. We were about a meter from the road and as we expected it was fairly busy. Lorries swept past most of the night waking us with their engines then rocking us back to sleep as their wake set jones swaying. We had a quick…
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We’d planned a walk up the valley from Devil’s Bridge. We had just enough time (3h) before the rain storm rolled in from the sea. Unfortunately the rain didn’t keep to its schedule and as I was making our packed lunch the rain and a little hail started. We did all the Jones filling/emptying and…
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We gave Flynn a long walk up into the logging forrest. There’s nothing much at all here, just miles of gravel roads forking off up and down the mountains. We must bring the bikes back sometime. Then we continued our way down the valley. Normally this would feel like a narrow twisty road but after…
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We left Off Grid Power and took the M4 over the bridge to Wales. We stopped for touristing at Castle Rhanglan and lunch at the Skirrid Mountain Inn. The Castle is the last castle built in Wales. something which is probably written down in a history book somewhere and probably is true. The Skirrid Mountain…
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We’re off to get the USB on Jones upgraded to “enough USB in the back” to do this we’re going to dispense with a 240v socket. Because it’s fiddly and 240v is involved we’re getting Off Grid Power in Oxfordshire to fix it. We’re booked in early tomorrow so tonight we’re staying nearby on the…
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