Yesterday we got up bright and early to walk the 2 miles to the scooter place and get it picked up for repair. We'd gone 50yrds when a man asked us where we were going. I think the sat nav had caught his attention. We told him and he shook his head. 'Today is a national holiday all over Italy, everything is closed' So that was that. We headed for the beach but gave up on that as it was cloudy and even started to rain on the way back!
This morning we tried again. We arrived at the place at 08:15 but it looked as if it was totally closed and had moved, but we couldn't work out where! Getting a bit despondent we asked someone who assured us it was the right place. We walked back just as someone turned up. We were too early!!! They made a phone call, and within the time it took for me to get us 2 coffees a van had turned up. He took us to the dock and disappeared off with the scooter, saying it would be a day! We headed for the beach again, more sun today. At 4pm, when we reckoned they'd be back from their siesta! Tony asked our kind landlord to phone up to enquire about progress. We were told 10am tomorrow, maybe!
So the plan to go to Venice goes out the window as well, hey ho, and we still haven't put the tent up! We will try and do this camping thing on the way home. Bit silly to go all this way and back and not use it! Tony is looking up campsites at the moment behind me, and for those of you who say it's not proper camping unless it rains, we've just had a heavy shower here and we're going further north! I suppose we need to acclimatise before getting back to the UK though we will try and bring some sunshine with us.
Hopefully next update somewhere on route home!
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