A relatively short drive over to Tuscany and our next location \u2013 Camping Semifonte at Barberino Val D\u2019Elsa. We managed to arrive before the 13:00 siesta and it is worth bearing in mind that the Italians still religiously follow this ritual so if you arrive between 13:00 and 15:00 then there\u2019s no-one around to help.
\nOne thing worthy of note on our travels through Italy is that the roads are atrocious. They are in the most shocking state of repair one could imagine. Towing is difficult and even without the caravan, journeys are truly uncomfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A relatively short drive over to Tuscany and our next location \u2013 Camping Semifonte at Barberino Val D\u2019Elsa. We managed to arrive before the 13:00 siesta and it is worth bearing in mind that the Italians still religiously follow this ritual so if you arrive between 13:00 and 15:00 then there\u2019s no-one around to help. … Continue reading Barbarino val D’Elsa…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-europe-italy-germany-mainland","category-2013-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}