Thursday 4 July

Hi all, This morning the alarm went off at 6am. That seems a bit early but we had some travel ahead of us: The plan was to go to our Jolly Camping near Venice, a fair hike of over 500km After some packing and breakfast mum and dad went to pick up the car which was parked along the circus maximus. That is a long, large area where they used to do the horse and cart races, you know with those 6 or so horses in front of them and those sharp blades on the wheels. It has side walls sloping up where the populus would sit and a large building presumable for the dignitaries to sit and overview the races. Truly and inspiring environment to pickup your car and head for near sudden death in the Roman early morning traffic. Mum was aid to the satnav and some how we managed to negotiate other carriages and men on horseback (scooters defying death and laughing in its face) and arrived at our humble abode. We double parked, just as the Romans do! We got the hang of it. It seems it was not our day to die in the circus maximums after all. After loading to cart and whispering into the satnav ears of the horse where we wanted to go to, it took us there pretty well. The early contact with the autostrada however showed an accident had happened further up and the familiar files of stationary carts appeared out of nowhere. As it happened mum was able to convince the satnav to take us out via another route. Soon the open road beckoned and our chariot soon got used to its average top speed of around 130km/hr About 2.30 we arrived safely in our Venice site. The scenery was beautiful all along the way. First the landscape increasingly turned hilly and on the latter part it all flattened out again. A beautiful part of creation! Once unloaded at the camping we went to look for a shop and as it tuns out there was large shopping mall close by. Food was bought and the thirsty horse was given a good drink. The shuttle bus into Venice is booked for 9AM and the return for 5.30PM Now all we need to do is wait for coffee water to boil and a technician to bring us a fry pan for our frozen pizzas to be heated up in We are thankful for another fine day received from our Heavenly Father! Mum, Emz,Hanz,Stevo and dud