The plan

Drive to Italy, tour Italy, drive back via France

After much pleading, I managed to get three weeks off in September. Unfortunately, due to other staff having already booked leave, I couldn’t start the holiday any earlier. This would give us Saturday to get to Monza, nearly 1000 miles. Ouch.

Thankfully, I have a very understanding boss, and a cunning plan! I normally work from home on a Friday, doing reports and other paperwork. So I’ll work on my laptop, in the car, on the Friday whilst Na drives us to the Channel Tunnel. Then it’ll be on to Belgium and a campsite near Spa (obviously), where my holiday will officially start. We’ll then set off early from Belgium to drive to somewhere near Lake Como. Porsche, please don’t break on either of these days!

Sunday will be the F1, a first for both of us so we are massively excited.

After that, we’ll stay over to Monday, maybe Tuesday to recover, before heading off on our tour of the rest of Italy!

Our rough plan is to head over to Venice, via the Stelvio pass (it’s almost on the way, right!?) Then head down the east coast/middle of Italy, stopping at campsites or hotels as available. Oh yes, I forgot, the Porsche needs to fit all our camping gear as well! Then, depending on time/tiredness/funds, at some point we’ll cross to the west coast and head back up. On to Monaco to drive the track if we can, then back up through France via Le Mans to Cherbourg, and the Ferry back to the UK.

The idea being we’re free to do what we want, no pressure to get to booked campsites or hotels, and we can cut the amount of (Italian) driving by almost half if we want to by cutting across earlier.

Sounds relaxing, if you don’t count the mileage.