Again another week passed by that you did not hear from me. I was simply too tired..............

A busy week without my assistant Stef, specially on Saturday I had a lot of arrivals, but then Saturday evening I drove around 21.00 to Ventimiglia, where Stef arrived with the train from Nice. It was perfect timing: he just walked out of the trainstation at the time I stopped at the parking in front of the station. Back to the campsite in one hour and of course a big warm welcome at the bar with Maura, Georgio and Fabio.

Sunday and Monday we worked together so Stef could get back in the routine and rythm. Tuesday I could take a day off. What a strange thing a body is: because my mind knew Stef was taking care of everything my body fell apart instantly. All the hard physical work came out: every joint in my body was aching. But now I AM BACK!!! Watch me, here I go again.

Almost all tents are full. This weekend a few more arrivals and from then on it will be change-overs all the way.

As expected the contact with the guests is still nice, but different as it was in the low season until just a week ago. For everything there is a time..............

Tuesdays and Thursday evening we have live music at the bar, which is nice and on Wednesday evening they open the swimmingpool at 22.00, so every body can swim at night.

Also the two girls of Camping Kids are doing a great job. Last wednesday they organized a dinner party in the restaurant with Tipi and Flora and they got 31 children to join them.

After the visit of the Owl family earlier this season now some guests on the terraces had a big surprise: a visit of a vox every evening around 02.00 AND a big family of wild boars!!!! There are seven of them. They come every night to the field in front of tent 18 where a cherry tree is.

Of course they visit this place, because there was a Polish family. At arrival the woman asked if there were many bugs and ants around there. Of course there was, we are in a forrest after all. But nobody expected that exactly specially for them they had to cope with the nightly surprise of the growling noise that woke them up. When they looked outside they spotted this family! I can imagine the fear in the beginning, but later they got used to them and even woke the children up so they could see them. Also around 04.00 they woke up from a scratching noise around their tent: a fox came to visit them.

If that was not enough during the week the animal farm extended with dormouses playing in the trees, chewing on the stones of the cheries that were on the ground and a pussy cat. They gave the cat milk, while watching the dormouses playing in the trees.

Now at the arrival of new guests in tent 18 we are warning them about the noises they can expect and I've asked them to make pictures of the animals when they spot them. So far I could not manage to stay awake till 02.00 in the morning to go and see the wild boars myself.

Well, my dear friends, so far the 'adventures' on C'era una Volta.

I am fully rested again and from now on Stef and I will run our little village in a relaxed pace and enjoy ourselves :)

Take care, and as soon as I have some interesting pictures I will post them.

Ciao for now,

Rita