Sardinia

Today we took the 10am ferry to Sardinia, arriving at 18.30. Being Italian, it left at 10.30 and arrived around 18.45. Boarding was shambolic but it kind of worked. None of the slick signs like Le Tunnel, just a guy with a barcode scanner standing in the entrance to the docks. It really was just a commercial docks with a ferry squeezed in. 

We had a cabin, needed for the dogs the website said, though there seemed to be owners on the “doggie deck” that just sat on the open area on the top deck. We sat for a good while outside, out the wind and in the sun was very pleasant. We retired to the cabin around 14.30 and both had a nap. Lovely.

There was a knock at the door around 5pm by the cleaners who wanted us out the room. We then sat around for an hour waiting for the car dock to open.

Getting off the ferry was equally shambolic. We were told by someone to reverse out and exit down the ramp we had used to get to our parking. Aside from a little altercation with a car who was doing the same and who we had blocked in, we were soon moving and getting off the ferry. It almost felt like cheating as all the other cars were sat there packed in like sardines. There was none of the usual staff telling you to go, stop and go that way. 

We had met an older English couple at the site before last and she had an interesting story. They were fairly recently married and her story was that she ran an Italian campsite until her husband had died, and then Brexit put a spanner in her works, and many like her, so she is currently trying to sell her Italian house since she no longer wants to live there, too many memories, nor can she stay because of the 90/180 rule. Her home was in a zone where they had an earthquake some years ago and she said the area was still recovering, the older buildings mostly destroyed and still being replaced. 

Anyhow, this lady told us about the best site in Sardinia, and that’s where we are currently setup. At the site we left this morning, I had to applaud a German guy for his expert reversing of his caravan out the site. When checking in here we bumped in to him and his wife again at reception. 

It is a bit windy tonight, and first night when you arrive late is always a bit frantic, but we are setup, and we have just had a cheese and cracker supper with a lovely Lidl pils beer. Not too shabby. 

Sophie sent us a map of her favourite places in Sardinia and tomorrow we will start to explore the north of the island.