Another day of compromise for driving. Many years ago we travelled from southern France into Italy avoiding the motorway but the route was urban all the way and took forever. So we knew that we would have to go on the motorway for most of the journey but took the opportunity to use smaller roads to start with.
The D973 from Cavaillon to Pertuis was wide, quiet and had lovely views of craggy hills and countryside. We then joined the A8/E80 motorway close to Aix-en-Provence. The good news was that, being a Sunday, there were hardly any lorries as France does not allow lorries (with a few exceptions) to travel between 22:00 Saturday and 22:00 Sunday. This made the driving a pleasant experience and the excellent French motorway aires meant that that we could choose a good stop for lunch.
Unfortunately, after we crossed the Italian border, we hit many sections reduced to single carriageway, often with contraflow and through tunnels. These sections all had 60 kpm speed limits, which slowed our progress considerably.
At this time of the year, the choice of campsites is very limited as many don't open until April or later. We really wanted to get close to Savona but had to stop earlier at one of the few open campsites.
Camping Bella vista is in the ACSI book and is in amongst many market gardens and nurseries. I wouldn't want to use this site with a long motorhome but at 5.99m we were able to negotiate the very restricted site, just.
Photo: Our pitch at Bellavista.
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