After 10 days Elounda to sort out my things and to see friends on Sunday it was time to hit the road to a new adventure: C'era una volta, (once upon a time), in Villanova D'Albenga Italy.

Sunday I went for lunch with Thanos and Radi to Paggia Amos, a nice 'end'.

Tweety to get new tires, service: ready to go!!!!

On my way to Heraklion, where the ferry to Piraeus left around 22.00, just a few hours later then planned. It proved that my booking was for the long way: Santorini and Milos, then Piraeus.

On board I found a nice sofa where I could sleep and the next morning I arrived around 12.00 in Piraeus.

A friend of Ineke had given me a GPS for the car, but when I switched it on in Piraeus I found that Greece was not in the system!!!!! Duuuuuh. So, it took me about an hour to find my way to Korinthos.

The weather was great: blue sky and full sunshine. Also the road was not bad at all.

Around 16.00 I arrived in Patras, where I had to wait to go on board on the Sophocles for Venice until 20.00.

The men on board were shouting their directions: up - down, left - right, move move move. I would not let any one make me nervous, so I stopped the car and did not move anymore. One of the men came to me, asking what was the problem. No problem, just tell me what to do without shouting. In a few seconds he said I was right and with normal directions and instructions I parked my car on deck.

The 30 hours on the Sophocles were not too bad, I had good company of Karolina, a girl from Slovakia who was also travelling alone. We had a good time all the trip.

At 08.00 in the morning we arrived in Venice.

Thank God in Italy the GPS was working so I found easily my way to Trevisio, where we booked a room for one night. Although I arrived early, around 10.00 I could go in the room already. First thing was of course to sleep a few more hours, after one night sleeping on the floor.

Shower, getting dressed and on my way to explore Trevisio. The weather was strange: I started walking in full sunshine, then it started to rain, to end up with hailstones and snow!!!

Square Trevisio

After a walk through the center back to the room, reading, resting, to go to the airport to collect Ineke, who arrived at 21.15.

Together on the search for a Pizzeria, but giving up on that idea and ending up in a snackbar where we had a glass of wine outside on the terrace.

Thursday morning after a good full breakfast on our way to Villanova D'Albenga, where we arrived around 17.00. First there was a bit of a confusion at the reception about my arrival. They did indeed receive my email that I was arriving a week before I had to start work, but because Vacansoleil and the team to build up the tents told them that they were coming around the 18th of April, they also assumed I was coming later.

Anyway, it was not a big problem. Renske, a DUTCH woman, working at the reception arranged that we can stay until the tents arrive in a wonderful caravan.

Very luxurious, I better not get used to this!!! A good thing that the tents are not here yet, because it would have been too cold in the night to sleep already in a tent. So, let's hope they will let me stay for the next 18 days in this caravan, until the team of Vacansoleil and Stef, my nephew - who is coming to work as my assistent - arrives.

In the evening we went to Villanova D'Albenga, a nice small village where we found a Pizzeria where we had fantastic food accompanied with a good glass of wine. The prices here are reasonable: a coffee is average 1 euro to 1.20, half a liter of wine 5 euro and the pasta was around 7 euro. And looking at the picture, you can see that it was not a small portion.

After dinner some shopping and back to the car. There Tweety and I met a tree! Driving backwards we heard scratch scratch and it was a tree moving towards my car!

Well, I would not have been surprised if I would have had small damage all the way here, but I never expected to 'park' my car against a tree in Villanova! But, no damage, it was only the noise luckily. We had to laugh a lot about it, now also Tweety knows where she is, Ineke said.

Friday: after a coffee in front of our caravan in the sun time to make a walk on the campsite. It is a village on it. Big, hughe. The places were my tents will be build looks fantastic, I will make a picture soon and download it.

Then on our way to Albenga. The old center of town was beautiful,

but the promenade along the sea was a bit disappointing. The whole beach is blocked with small business, like bars, cafes, restaurants. There is not really a big beach.

Then on our way to Allasio and there it looked more like we expected: a beautiful beach with a nice promenade. We had lunch on the promenade at the seaside

and after that we found a shop where I got my Internetstick from Tim. If I wanted to use the internet of the campsite it would cost me 3 euro an hour, which is ridiculous. Now I have this stick for 6 months for 10 euro a month! Which sounds like a good deal to me and now I am sitting in the caravan with vast internetconnection.

Well people, that is it for today. Of course I will almost daily keep you posted through this blog, where it is easy to also put pictures with it.

I hope all of you will also keep me posted about your 'adventures', it is so nice to stay in touch and to hear how you are doing.