????? Lanciano

9 July
Here we sit – not knowing where we are. (Minutes later: Nick has done some research and we are in Lanciano)

It's pretty good though. We stopped for lunch at this really fantastic beach. Went for a swim after. Then – just didn't get up. Lay in the sun reading. After I had fallen asleep – Nicks realised we had lost track of time. Finally we got up and walked to the van. Ruby received her first international parking ticket for 38 Euro's. We were like, there are so no signs here. OOPS!

15 meters down the road there was a campsite. We thought, okay, this is it. Out of interest we asked reception about the fine and whether there are any signs. The man said “no, you buy the ticket from here” (for 2 Euro a day). Nick looked in disgust. How were we supposed to know? There are no signs.

Anyway, the site is awesome. Literally on the sea. We are slowly getting used to the Pool Area's verbal diarrhoea-ed DJ's that are placed at every campsite pool. Whether it is “VIA VIA VIA” (trans. GO GO GO) for the kids egg and spoon race or the noisy introduction to the water aerobics session. It keeps you in hysterics as you still don't have a clue what's going on. The other thing is – this site (like some others) request swimmers to wear swimming caps. It reminds me of days at junior school swimming class. Though this time, it's adults and children alike. Nick and I were the rebels and climbed in anyway. We genuinely saw no signs and acted like dumb tourists. Nothing was said. Cooled off we retired to our Ruby Red where I have been blogging ever since. Nick has been reading his book and cooked me dinner. We had so much to catch up on on the blog and we were so far behind! So please know – it is not all play – there is a little work here and there. Just no stress.