A little walking around the deck with occasional views of
the Italian coast interspersed blog writing and Jane reading entries for the
Yeovil Literary Prize. The French Open entertained us later together with
following the Bath v Northampton Rugby Premiership Final. The latter was a
nail-biter with Bath losing a player to a red card after half an hour and,
despite our support, narrowly lost. Still, two years ago Bath were at the
bottom of the league, so it has been a great recovery and we have high hopes
for next season.
We have never been on a long ferry trip where the seas were so calm. There was
not a ripple on the deep blue sea below an endless expanse of blue sky. Sadly,
no sightings of dolphins!
The ferry arrived an hour and a half later than scheduled and we were almost
the last off the ferry. We then took the motorway to reduce the time it would
take us to get to Ravenna in the 30°C heat. We parked in official
motorhome parking spaces in the centre of Ravenna on the way out and we now
used a similar facility in a car park on the outskirts of Ravenna near the Basilica
of St. Apollinare Nuovo in Classe. At €2.25 for 24 hours, it is a popular
camperstop but there was plenty of space for us. We had been concerned about
the fridge for a few days and weren’t sure whether it was purely the extreme
heat or a fault. We were hoping that the cooler conditions at sea (we were
parked in the open) might mean that the fridge would recover but it became
clear that we had a serious problem and all of the food in the freezer had
defrosted, the milk had turned to yoghurt and other food would need to be
thrown out.
Photos: Jane enjoying the cruise; Arriving in Ancona.
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