We did end up staying another night at La Futa as it teemed it down on Tuesday & I didn’t feel like driving through it. Instead, we tried to plan a bit more where we should head towards: the forecast is still pretty terrible for most of Italy (and, it seems, the rest of Europe) with heavy rain & storms on the cards for the next several days. If we at least head South & down from the mountains, we might still get wet but at least it should be warmer. Those were our thoughts.
So we programmed the SatNav and here we are – at a Sosta on Lago di Bolsena. Great weather when we arrived,
but it hammered down overnight (say hello to leaky skylight at 05:30 this morning!).
Pretty lazy day today – cycled into Capodimonte: a small town built out on a volcanic headland,
and headed back fairly sharpish when we saw the storm clouds gathering.
We made it back just in time for a prolonged and fairly violent storm.
Lago di Bolsana is actually a crater of a long-extinct volcano; some 5 or 6 miles in diameter. Hence the beaches are all black sandy (where there IS sand). Again, a stunning location. We’ll stay here overnight again, and then it looks like we might head down to Naples & Pompei And, hopefully, temperatures in excess of 18 degrees!
Sounds like another typical beach holiday !
Weather back here beautiful, by the way – 24 degrees !!
Hope it improves for you as you head south – take it easy, not too many Peroni’s! Love to Joy.
Neil.
Peroni? Yuk. Actually, could say that about all Italian beer I’ve come across, though I’m sure there must be some good ones somewhere.
Weather due to stay unsettled here for several more days, though it’s beautiful this morning – if not a bit cool.