I just thought we should say a few words about the camping experience, after all we are on a camping trip.  The weather has been great here in Italy.  On the warm side (High 80s-Low 90s) when we first arrived last week but we found some shade and a great swimming pool.  On Sunday we got up to dark skies…..this was not looking good.  After a quick breakfast of breakfast bar and a cup of coffee we thought it would be a good day for laundry.  Big fat raindrops began  falling.  We began stripping the bed, gathering everything made of fabric we could lay our hands on (Including the sleeping bags) and stuffing it quickly into the back seat of the car.  Okay we are off to the laundromat….getting everything carried inside and…..”Boom”,….. lighting….thunder…. the sky opened up.  It rained like I haven’t seen in years. (for about 2 hours)   Once the laundry was done and we had a bit of lunch we headed back to see what was left of the tent.  Well let me tell you, the “American Coleman Tent” did us proud.  Not a drop of water was inside….but wait….why is the floor so squishy?  We of course had put a ground cover (plastic 9×11 tarp) on the ground before setting up the tent…..well let me tell you ….water had settled under the tent…on top of the tarp!    Humm…what to do?  David patiently undid one side of the tent and lifted it up….reveling about 2 inches of water.  After much sweeping and wiping  of the ground cover …we left the tent propped up on one side for a couple of hours so that it would dry completely.  We were so glad that we had all clean and dry linen for bed that night….It was an adventure in camping.  I guess we should set up on a slope so the water will run off next time…lesson learned!

On the bright side….we see wild pigs (Chingali)  almost every night while we have dinner.  Some of them have babies!  They are on the other side of the fence thank goodness…..but so charming to see them come out of the woods to munch on the meadow in front of our camp site.  There are some deer (European Roe Deer) as well…..this is a great camp site for seeing nature.

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