Finally left the gem of a campsite at Semifonte and set the GPS for Lake Garda or to be more specific, Pescheira del Garda. A short and pleasant trip north through Italy reaching our destination before the Siesta and thus avoiding a 2 hour wait at the campsite entrance. Finally, we reached a \u201cdead-end\u201d of a road where the campsite was supposed to be.\u00a0 Not a camper in sight. Firstly google maps took the rap, then GPS and finally it turned out the navigator had plotted the wrong street name.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, we asked a passing Italian motorist for the location of Camping Capuccini. Initially he tried unsuccessfully to explain and then just beckoned us to follow him as he guided us the final 2 kilometers to the correct location. We actually found Italy a very friendly and welcoming place; apart from small roads and the chaotic driving (which appears to be genetically implanted).<\/p>\n
Camping Capuccini was fantastic with very decent-sized pitches and a very well-organised site with beautiful views over Garda from the best pitches. We have stayed at other places near Garda and they tend to be very cramped and busy \u2013 almost like shanty towns. Not so Camping Capuccini.<\/p>\n
The sun shone all afternoon and it was warm enough for us to celebrate out 21st<\/sup> wedding anniversary around the BBQ with a bottle of champagne (well, an Italian imitation at least!). Just as we finished dining, the heavens opened up with a terrific electrical storm and that was the end of probably only the third or fourth nice day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Finally left the gem of a campsite at Semifonte and set the GPS for Lake Garda or to be more specific, Pescheira del Garda. A short and pleasant trip north through Italy reaching our destination before the Siesta and thus avoiding a 2 hour wait at the campsite entrance. Finally, we reached a \u201cdead-end\u201d of … Continue reading Pescheira del Garda…<\/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-418","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\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}