Day 69: Heinousness Most Foul

Date: Thursday 5^th June
Staying: Rivabella - Lake Como, Lecco, Italy
Distance Travelled: 150.0 Miles (Yes, Really)
Song of the day: Street Spirit – Radiohead

If there is such a thing as the God of roads (I am trying to come up with a name for my Street Spirit, no luck so far) he was not smiling on us today. This was another day where traffic and wrong turns (or not turning in our case) played havoc most foul with our plans.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get out of Verona. With the trouble we had trying to find our campsite (and the lack of adequate street signs), it was never going to be easy. After a 17 point turn to get out of our tiny parking spot, we followed the road out, and even though we were forced into a detour that wasn’t mapped, we ended up heading in the correct direction. But that is where the fun started.

It turns out its not just street signs that Verona is lacking, but direction signs too. So as we come flying up to an intersection, it’s only when we stop for the light that we discover we are in the incorrect lane. This time however, fortune favoured the brave, as a truck was in the lane next to us, so we managed to steal across in front of him. It’s not like that is uncommon in Italy. Next adventure was the 6 lane highway that diverged into 3 different highways. Unfortunately, our exit was in the fast lane, not something that should often be attempted in Jarno without a downhill start.

OK, so we get to Milan, and apparently there are 2 exits we can take to head towards our campsite on Lake Como. Turns out we missed both of them. We didn’t see the first one, and we were going to take the second one, so through some confusion, we missed them both. This left another problem, Traffic! Around Milan it was horrendous, and then at Como (we had to go there to get to our campsite), 4 lanes merge into 1, so you can imagine what that was like.

We eventually made our campsite, frustrated, and quite a bit later than anticipated. Maybe the camp owner could see this, maybe the Street Spirit was saying sorry, but we ended up with a spot right on the lake, which was very still and calm, even in the rain. The camera got a work out as we relaxed for the rest of the afternoon. It was a beautiful place