Day 15 - Partiremo insieme nel silenzio del mattino – Emiglia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli

Due to some accident one of the main roads was closed and we had to take another one, which first led us back a whole bit we had driven already and in the end we got stuck in traffic there because of course everybody had to take this road now. We did eventually get to Udine later than planned and picked up tamaryllis at the station. We then headed to the camp site which turned out to be a little further away from the venue than we thought so we called the tourist office to see if there was something else closer; there was another camp site and they also had a spot for us.

So off we went to find that camp site which turned out to be a bit of problem… We asked at some pizzeria somewhere and they pointed us in the right direction but still we couldn’t really find the place and we figured it had to be part of those cute colored little houses we saw so we drove towards them but no camp site in sight… We asked some guy walking around there and he told us where we had to go but also offered us the keys to one of the houses since he had them as he was working there. We friendly declined and tried to find our camp site again, which still didn’t turn out to be all too easy because their sign was partly ruined by the sun. Already we should’ve taken that as a bad sign… Once we finally found it, it turned out to be some weird desolated place with only a few people camping left. Lots of mosquitoes (and subsequently lots of bites, we probably smelled like three big lemons that evening from all the anti-mosquito stuff we used), bathrooms that were not all too clean, really high and wet grass (which should’ve given us an indication of the humidity around there actually…). There were three showers and all three had some old shower curtain that didn’t completely close. Wonderful place really…

Since the place was so inviting we figured we’d head off once we had put the tent up, showered and changed. We checked out the venue and then headed to Udine itself. The venue, which was basically the only thing in the whole town was beautiful and the center of Udine also… The whole surroundings and small towns we passed aren’t really that attractive, if we don’t have to we’ll probably won’t go back. Oh, one notable thing was the night club called “Vroom Vroom” but we didn't have to time to pay the club a visit.

Once we got back to the camp site we discovered that due to the enormous humidity our air mattress had gotten completely wet… Coosje and Chiara had planned on sleeping outside that evening but with the wet air mattress that eventually turned out a no-go (in retrospect a good thing because we might have died from mosquito bites…). We couldn’t stay in the tent in three persons because it really was kinda tiny and too small for three persons so we ended up in the car, all three of us… Very “comfy”! Several positions were tried out with Coosje turning around completely and putting her legs where her head should be, for example, but nothing really worked except staying in a position between lying down and staying upright. Of course we didn’t get all too much sleep that night…