Villa Castelli, Termoli and Ancona

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'Look at that cloud!' we said from about 20 miles out, pointing <br />to a strange white light bulb shaped cloud in an otherwise blue sky - <br />only to find it was coming from one of the MANY factories there. We <br />headed to our stop, Villa Castelli, which was an Olive Oli producer next <br />to a MASSIVE radio mast (and we still couldn't get any internet <br />reception!). The houses surrounding Castelli all had similar, strange <br />round shaped roofs which we haven't seen anywhere else in Italy. From <br />there we traveled to Bari and the hugged the coast up as far as Termoli <br />where we planned to stay the second night.<br /> We eventually found the place as mentioned in our book after asking some <br />locals and plucked up the courage to knock on the door. An old lady <br />opened and looked at us very confused. About five minutes later the <br />owner of the farm and his wife turned up on a motorbike followed by a <br />car with his three daughters in. They all looked very confused to see us <br />and spoke to each other in fast italian with lots of arm movements! <br />Eventually, one of the girls asked me in English "Why do you want to <br />stay here?" - I showed them the book - they'd never seen it before - but <br />it was their farm in it! The old guy who's farm it was proclaimed 'no <br />problemo!' and invited in to have a meal with them. I don't think they <br />really knew what was expected of them! We declined and parked for the <br />night, after being shown their wine they produce on their 45hectar <br />property and we bought 3 bottles for 13EURO.<br /> Today we travelled up the coast from Termoli to our stop tonight just <br />outside Ancona in a truck stop alongside a couple of other camper vans <br />where I sit writing this blog. The coast is nice, but no nicer than the <br />south of France and we stopped for lunch along the way, and to fill up <br />with water from a stand pipe in a town (Gordon's hose attachments come <br />in again!) All of the camper stops were closed - we did find a camp site <br />open but the guy wanted 20EURO to stay and that didn't include showers <br />or electric so we pressed on to where we are now.<br /> Tomorrow we'll slow down a bit and explore a bit of this area of Italy <br />and start to plan our journey North.

Villa Castelli, Termoli and Ancona

Apologies for the delayed update, we've had problems with internet coverage since we left Pompei so have been unable to upd...

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