Day 6 + 7 Naples - Ancona - Parma - Nimes (1,500KM)

The posts will become more sporadic on our journey home simply because

1: The challenges are over
2: the distances especially days 6+7 are greater and there is less time.....

I dropped Dad off at Naples airport (real dump), but not before the car caught alight due to some spilt oil in boiling naples traffic (a worrying but amusing episode), and picked up Bob Moore who flew in (late) on the easyjet plane Dad was taking out.

We then had 500KM to Ancona and then another 250KM to our hotel just outside of Modena (in an industrial estate)

Lovely view of the mountains en route to Ancona airport

Taken off the motorway and on an endless string of winding roads behind trucks

At Ancona airport having a similar picture of one I had taken 4 years previously

Goat the sheep enjoying the ride

Bob enjoying the lovely lancia ride quality

and Courts clearly doing the same

We arrived at our lovely Mercure just outside Modena at about 7:00PM, and checked in (it wasn't really that great but it would do). We cooked ourselves Pasta in the room (well on the balcony) and enjoyed a few beers.

Next day - on our way to Nimes (a massive 450 mile drive)

Nice out of the window shot

YEAH

tunnel vision (there are so many tunnels in this part of the world)

slightly failed but still good shot

one of many epic bridges of Italy

on one of the high altitude autostradas above the med

Stopped in Villanova-Albenga

The Leg

Old lancia meet modern lancia (the one pictured is called an Ypsilon)

Hello France!

Kristian succumbed to the heat and noise and fell asleep

Another gratuitous out of the window shot

a lovely sandero just outside of Nimes

Nimes is a stunningly beautiful town nestled between Montpellier and Marseille in the south of France. It is home to the second oldest Colosseum in the world, which was featured in the film Ronin starring Robert De Niro. Most people recognise Nimes for its buildings but don't know where it is.

Le Colosseum

Cool architecture at a bar where we had some Mojitos

Courteney very much enjoying his (strong) Mojito

Memorial to the dead of WW2 we believe.

So - two long driving days, but a hell of a lot of ground covered:

Next few drives are short - 250 miles to barcelona, 150 miles to Andorra and 300 miles on the final leg to Bilbao. Really looking forward to sightseeing again in Barcelona but not so much the drive in the city........ Here is a short video of the last two days:



A+K+B+C