Woken by church bells in the hills above Verona

Daily writing prompt
Have you ever been camping?

Hell yes, I’ve been camping. Do I like it?

Depends on where…

From my experience, camping in Australia was a full contact sport. There are a lot of creepy crawlies. I do not like it. Camping in England required wet-weather gear – as pajamas. Camping in Scotland required a heater, in the Summer.

our set-up in Scotland 2006

Camping in France was lovely but we did wake in the wee hours to a hedgehog eating the pâté we had failed to clean up after getting drunk on excellent cheap red wine. (We no longer eat pâté now that we know how it’s made.)

A little prickly ball getting into our bagged rubbish.

We camped in the suburbs of Paris in 2006 at https://www.campingparis.fr/. I highly recommend camping if you’re travelling with children because they find so many new friends and the language barrier doesn’t seem to matter if there’s a football or skipping rope to play with.

Camping in Italy was delicious. We honeymooned in Europe and to extend our stay, we camped in a few places including Verona, pitching our little tent in the grounds of a monastery that had been transformed into a youth hostel. We woke to the sound of church bells.

Honeymoon Camping in Verona 1998