The day has been one of mixed emotions. Within a kilometre of leaving the hotel 2 numpties did their best to wipe me out. Then we had another Garmin moment immediately upon leaving our tirst fuel stop. Within 100 metres, I turned left. Grizzly not seeing where I'd gone, went a different route. A few miles up the road we entered a roundabout from different directions, at the same time! Lucky.
Today's route took us over some mountains, I know not which, and some fabulous roads. One in particular, SS487 was full of hairpins (switchbacks) and was a lot of fun. I'd recommend that road to anyone, if you happen to be in the area. Besides signposts warning of deer, there were also some with bears on! We saw neither.
Our only POI stop today was at an Italian war cemetery. I was curious how the Italians honour their war dead. The stop wasn't wasted, as we discovered that unlike our dead, they inter theirs, 3 to a plot, showing name and rank, except for a general, who has his own stone. A simple cross heads a slab with the 3 names on it. A rough count produced a figure of just shy of a 1000 men at this cemetery.
I can't say I enjoyed the ride that much today, apart from the aforementioned. The rest was fraught, as the further south we travelled the worse the already poor standard of driving got. From cars pulling across us, big vans overtaking a long line and forcing in, a Smart car making a third lane along a double white line, to a Mercedes overtaking in a tunnel! I've had to toot twice today, the last time when a guy pulled out then crawled at 10mph in front of me. When I overtook he tooted back, so he got the finger as well. Prick!
With another route mishap, and rather surprisingly Tomtom and Garmin working in tandem, both taking wrong turns, I was only too glad to get to the hotel. We have secure parking for 2 nights, so can relax on that score.
Attached to the hotel is a pizzeria. We hit the bar first, obviously, to claim our welcome drink...
Then started on the the beers. After a couple, we walked about 10 metres to the pizzeria. I was determined to wait until we arrived in the region that invented pizza before having one, so tonight was the night.
I was expecting something with red in it, maybe if I had had plain Neapolitan but this had a yellow cherry tomato sauce base, mozzarella, some pork, pieces of hard cheesy crisp type stuff and a bit of greenery, basil I think. It was very nice, especially washed down with an Erdinger.
Tomorrow we shall visit old Pompeii ruins. I have the tickets already that are supposed to enable us to avoid the queues. We shall see.
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