Tina
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Trip by car from Vallecamonica in the Northern Italian Alps to Andalucia from mid-September to mid-November 2018, Tina and Andrea 50/60 years old.
Introduction
The idea of travel as being a priority for us at this time in our life started in 2015 after some health issues which fortunately resolved without major problems but encouraged us to assess what we our priorities were for the coming years. Our first few trips, which I’ll be posting a little at a time were all in Italy and mostly based on a low-cost formula of cheap Ryanair flight and Airbnb accommodation. We had a great time each time, we visited Bari and Brindisi a week each, West Coast of Sicily 3 weeks, East coast of Sicily three weeks, all using Ryanair and instead by car the Massa-Carrara area, Genova Nervi, the Finale Ligure area in Liguria all for about a week each and Monte Conero (Ancona).
At the beginning of 2018 my usual autumn work contract fell through and so I was left with the choice feeling dismal and unemployed or taking advantage to do a really long trip. Around the same time we sold our trusty but 14-year-old Yaris and bought a spacious, reliable and a bit slow uphill Honda Jazz. We live in the Alps in a small village at 1000 metres with 80 inhabitants. Today, ok it’s 2nd February, it’s snowing and minus 3 degrees centigrade. Sometimes we lose our tomato plants to frost in May. When we travel, we head south for the sun. Oddly perhaps, on a road trip, one objective was to minimize car use and walk as much as possible.
Our budget was not enormous, I don’t have a permanent job and Andrea doesn’t work, we rent an apartment in the summer on Lake Iseo and bits of our house in the Alps, we get by. This is a summary of our trip, during the trip I wrote a blog every day with info and trips so family, friends and students could follow us. I think pretty much nobody did! We had some assiduous readers from Portugal, so it’s a pity I don’t know anyone in Portugal! Never mind, writing the blog and writing other things about the trip now has been useful to me to remember, details, names, places and enormously enjoyable, it has become a hobby. I hope it can also be useful to other people in some way.
Scroll down here on the thread for the next posts which summarise our trip.
If you want you can find more detailed information about each day of our trip on our blog: https://slowtravelitalyspain.blogspot.com/ To find the Andalucia posts click on the three lines at the top left next to the title, then choose archive, then show more, then 2018 September, October and November.
Texts by Tina. Photos all original photos by Andrea
Trip by car from Vallecamonica in the Northern Italian Alps to Andalucia from mid-September to mid-November 2018, Tina and Andrea 50/60 years old.
Introduction
The idea of travel as being a priority for us at this time in our life started in 2015 after some health issues which fortunately resolved without major problems but encouraged us to assess what we our priorities were for the coming years. Our first few trips, which I’ll be posting a little at a time were all in Italy and mostly based on a low-cost formula of cheap Ryanair flight and Airbnb accommodation. We had a great time each time, we visited Bari and Brindisi a week each, West Coast of Sicily 3 weeks, East coast of Sicily three weeks, all using Ryanair and instead by car the Massa-Carrara area, Genova Nervi, the Finale Ligure area in Liguria all for about a week each and Monte Conero (Ancona).
At the beginning of 2018 my usual autumn work contract fell through and so I was left with the choice feeling dismal and unemployed or taking advantage to do a really long trip. Around the same time we sold our trusty but 14-year-old Yaris and bought a spacious, reliable and a bit slow uphill Honda Jazz. We live in the Alps in a small village at 1000 metres with 80 inhabitants. Today, ok it’s 2nd February, it’s snowing and minus 3 degrees centigrade. Sometimes we lose our tomato plants to frost in May. When we travel, we head south for the sun. Oddly perhaps, on a road trip, one objective was to minimize car use and walk as much as possible.
Our budget was not enormous, I don’t have a permanent job and Andrea doesn’t work, we rent an apartment in the summer on Lake Iseo and bits of our house in the Alps, we get by. This is a summary of our trip, during the trip I wrote a blog every day with info and trips so family, friends and students could follow us. I think pretty much nobody did! We had some assiduous readers from Portugal, so it’s a pity I don’t know anyone in Portugal! Never mind, writing the blog and writing other things about the trip now has been useful to me to remember, details, names, places and enormously enjoyable, it has become a hobby. I hope it can also be useful to other people in some way.
Scroll down here on the thread for the next posts which summarise our trip.
If you want you can find more detailed information about each day of our trip on our blog: https://slowtravelitalyspain.blogspot.com/ To find the Andalucia posts click on the three lines at the top left next to the title, then choose archive, then show more, then 2018 September, October and November.
Texts by Tina. Photos all original photos by Andrea
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