Thursday 25 May 2017

Not as hot and sticky a night as we thought and arose to a rapidly warming bright sunny day, the haze now burning off to leave nice views along the lake. After breakfast serviced the repositioned Bertie, having noticed we'd parked on the access space rather than a proper pitch – thought it was a bit narrow! This way round we had the benefit of the sun and views over the lake. Decided to deploy the windblockers to create a shady space, but took down the end one because it stopped the nice cooling breeze – we ended up with a nice relaxing space which we then spent the rest of the day utilising!

After lunch we took Jamie for a walk along the lake shore to see if we could find a landing pier for the ferries we can see running up and down the lake but Toscolano doesn't seem to have one. Although he was happy to drink from the lake waters Jamie seemed very nervous about the little wavelets and would not go into the water at all; odd as he didn't seem to have any bother about the seaside.

Then later, after tea “alfresco” we walked up the lane towards the village in search of, well, whatever there was to see. Met a Brit couple who had arrived on the site earlier and had a brief chat then followed a sign for a “supermarket” but never found it, returning via a circular route and enjoying the heady scents of all the tropical flowers including mimosa, honeysuckle and hibiscus, which were out in force.

A cold drink enjoyed as the evening got dark, the lights of the towns and villages twinkling across the lake. A nice end to an enjoyable day.

The campsite is currently very quiet but in view of all the “permanent” caravans with their massive awnings, garden furniture etc. we suspect it might get somewhat busier at the weekend.

Technical note: Although the campsite is supposed to have free wifi, we haven't been able to connect to it. But we're having great results with a "3" 12gb datasim in a Huawei mifi, in every country we've been in (and tried) so far.