Up at the normal time, despite having to tell a couple of Dutch guys at 4am that their laughing and joking at high volume wasn’t really acceptable. They were quiet afterwards.

We caught the 9:55 ferry across to Salo and, pausing only to pick up a variety of pastries at the baker’s, walked to the market.

This is a huge market, and we spent a couple of hours walking around it. However, the only thing we bought was a bag of freshly-fried fish (a mixture of whitebait, scampi and calamari). I wasn’t partial to the whitebait, but the scampi was beautiful, with a taste of garlic, and the calamari were done in a sweet batter.

Walking back to the ferry, Annie bought a hat, and we stopped off at a bar, where I had a coffee, and Annie had a pirlot. Back at Portese, we paused briefly at a bar by the marina, and then wandered back to the campsite, where we adjourned to the bar (purely to get an internet signal, officer), and then back to the van for our siesta. Bars are nice in Italy. And we are on holiday.

In the evening, we went out with Ed and Julia to a agritourismo, which is a sort of sponsored restaurant in the country, specialising in home produce. This one was about 15 minutes (by car) up the hill on our side of the lake, and it was beautiful, and the food was excellent, and reasonably-priced. We had drinks at Ed and Julia’s before bed at around midnight.

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