Day 30

Today we arose quite early because we had lost a day to Roger's leaking engine. We were once again watched by our slightly odd hotel waiter, but this morning he kind of had a reason for staring because of James' fantastic hair!

After packing the gear on the boys we settled up and set off around 10:30, which is pretty good going for us initally South East towards Ascea and some of the Coastal roads recommended to us by Antonio.

The roads wound their way up into the hills passing lots of small villages and were quite damp from the night before's rain which kept us alert. Also keeping us alert was the state of the roads - pothole-arama - and we even had to stop once while some locals repaired a section of Tarmac! The Italians don't like to drive on their side of the road all the time either and on several occasions we were faced with a 10 tonne lorry head on!

We managed around 60 miles in two hours on these roads, so we decided to head to the Autostrade to rack up some more, so after a short petrol/coffee break we proceeded south on the A3 towards Catanzaro. From there we headed East and stopped on the back of the toes of Italy at a place called Capo Rizutto (again recommended by Antonio) where we took in the beautiful sunset before it disappeared behind Sicily.

Bombed up the coast to our stop for the night on the in-step (Rossano Stazione) which was relatively dead by the time we got out but we stumbled across a lively restaurant with great pizzas and footie (Juve Lazio) on the telly.

323 miles today takes us up to 5365.