One thing about travelling like this is getting your bearings in other countries, I wouldn’t have had a clue where Florence was in relation to Rome before now but looking at a map and figuring out how long it might take to get to places has really helped my European geographical knowledge.
We now know that Maranello is not far off the route between Venice & Florence.
How could we pass that by. We did the Porsche museum in Germany so let’s do the Ferrari museum in Italy.
Well we didn’t quite go in because next door to the museum is a Ferrari driving experience shop. So of course jumping in a Portofino and whizzing round the local roads for 10 minutes is a much better way to experience Ferrari than walking round a museum!
They loved it, Ollie didn’t fancy it because it’s too loud, in the video you can just see him hiding behind the building with his hands over his ears,
Toms verdict: Really fast, loud, if you compare it to a normal car the difference is spectacular. You really got pushed back in the seat. I might get a Ferrari or maybe a Porsche.
After the excitement of that drive it was back to the old van for our next stop, Camping la Futa, incredible Tuscan hills and beautiful villages, the journey has just got better and better. I now think Tuscany is my favourite region.
The campsite was perfect. Off the beaten track, terraced so every pitch has a view. A lovely pool, fab play park, little bar & pizzeria. All run by one family, loved the notice politely requesting that you ask any questions before 6 as they’ll be busy running the pizzeria from then and won’t be able to be as helpful as they can during the day.
We had planned 3 nights so we could get settled, have a day relaxing then a day in Florence. It was Si’s turn to not be well so our Florence day was postponed whilst he slept for about 36 hours with a raging temperature and chills so we left him in the van with a hot weather bottle & paracetamol and had another day by the pool (we did check on him regularly and he was fine by the evening).
So next stop Florence or Firenze as we should call it.
Our travels, mostly in the van 