We woke at 8’ish and whilst I went for a shower Annie decided that we would de-camp today as we had to get the tyre anyway. I meanwhile had been having thoughts around rolling the old tyre there and the new one back, which got short shrift. Breaking camp didn’t take long but every effort brought on copious amounts of perspiration. Annie (how wise she is!) then had her shower and we were off.

A cheery chappie fitted the new spare and seemed well chuffed with his 5 euro tip and we found a nearby Lidl and bought a few essentials. We found a campsite only 3km away from the opera venue and were pleased to find that the pitches are twice as large as the last site and the owners twenty times friendlier. E 10˚ 16’ 26” N 43˚ 49’ 16”
It was a bit more expensive at €33 a night. A purchase of a huge peg hanging thingy (apparently deemed much better than the one we had already) from the site shop and a lunch of fruit and yogurt preceded a chill out and a nap for me before cycling into Torre del Lago for a looksee.

If you thought that the French had long lunch breaks, try shopping in Tuscany from 1pm to 4.30pm. We arrived in town at around 3.15, and found everything (apart from the bars and a thriving scooter business) shut. We ambled back and forth a bit, and then headed back to the campsite. I ventured out again a bit later, when the shops deemed to open to buy some fish. Zut alors! (or whatever the Italians say) – the fish shop, for one day only, wasn’t opening in the afternoon. However, I found a nice mini-market, and bought some lovely-looking vegetables. When I got back to camp, we broke out the little gas-powered barbecue Annie had bought me for a present last year, and we had a lovely Hibachi-style barbecue with plenty of bird-feeding as they scurried back and forth. We think we have two gay guys opposite with a cute little dog. Two Italian girls appear as if by magic every time they open their door to play with (torment?) the little scrap of a thing.

We were entertained in the night by some disco / club thing going on somewhere near to the campsite, but it didn’t disturb us too much.

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