We’re taking off in Kassel and heading to Genova, to spend some days in Cinque Terra. We’ll land on an airstrip by the sea, and honestly…that’s a first challenge for me. Brrr..Water!Joerg has had his first challenge by then. He’ll be taking Lola for a first time over the Alps. He’s reading every little tip he can find, and that feels to me so good and safe! Anyway, after my first three courses with Bruno, the teacher in Grimbergen, I know now how to check the altitude. So, Joerg, I can help! :-)
After the mountains and the coast, we’ll go for volcanoes and ruins. We’ll fly from Genova to Salerno, and try to do a VFR over the Vesuvius and Pompeii. Except for the Alps and a visit to Naples, the whole trip should have been relaxed up to then. But now…
We’ll leave Salerno over water to Palermo (Boccadifalco), Sicilia. So that’s an hour over water for someone who does not like to swim… Joerg promised me to get life jackets and a boat. And I can keep my life jacket on my lap. You’re better well prepared, no?…
He’s only not sure if next to the boat and the jackets we can still take the tent now, but I suppose that’s only because he does not want to sleep on the ground ;-)
Tsss...tssss...Almost 40, you see...
From Sicilia we’ll make a special stop for Joerg. He wants to see the Castel del Monte, in the region of Bari – the heel of Italy. The castle is unique in its’ geometric shape and absolutely unknown to people from Bari we have met… Sometimes you wonder where Joerg gets his ideas?!
By then, our first trip is almost over and we decided to keep the end a surprise… Even to ourselves :-) We go where the wind takes us. Venice, Parma, Sienna?
But hé…that’s what we call freedom (and why you should be really jealous by now…)
So, Lola goes in maintenance now (after a weekend-away with Henrik), to get ready herself. Joerg is teaching me in meantime to read the maps and to handle the GPS. And guess what…not every woman is bad in reading maps :-)
