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It is weird to be back in a 'home' after 2 months and half on the road. We all feel so unnatural to sleep in different rooms, not being in same place the 6 of us while sleeping, cooking, eating, laughing fighting singing reading learning .... every moment of every hour of every day.

We traveled for almost 14'000 km this time. We left from Rome on june the 12th and we arrived up to Nordkapp in Norway. We visited so many places, met old friends, got to know new friends. We told our story, we listened to other people's stories. It has been so great to be on the road for so long. Little by little I'll try to post all pics of all places, many of them. Let's get started.

We left from Rome during the night. Fabio had left in the morning after leaving our car in a garage in Rome, came back to Tuscany and back again in Rome to get me and the kids at my mom's. We traveled up to Bolsena lake and slept in a parking area for campers. Then the next night was spent near Firenze in a nice camping 'Il Poggetto' . Now a story about this. When we travel north we usually try to drive the Chiantigiana Road because we found out that Sting has a wonderful mansion there : Il Palagio . Back in april Gaia wanted to be driven there as a birthday present, just to see it and dream to meet her favourite singer. Since then we try to drive there when we can and we laugh and tell funny stories about how we can meet Sting, just being plain silly all of us :) Here a pic we took

  In the morning we headed to Emilia Romagna.

Here our pic taken on the Muraglione Pass

It's a beautiful place, along a wonderful road , 67 statal road.

We arrived in Igea Marina where Leo and Seba wanted to celebrate their ninth birthday.

We went to this nice parking place for caravans ' Adriatico Parking' and spent few days enjoying ourselves, going to the beach and making friends with other people there. On 17th we celebrated Leo and Seba, with all the kids there. The children were so happy, a very different kind of birthday, but just the one they were dreaming

Breakfast together answering phone calls from Grandma

Flying kites ( birthday presents )

Leo and Seba and PapaF, my men

Cake time !! No homemade for them, just Ikea Cakes, but they worked out fine

And then .... ready for the beach !!!!

The day after the birthdya, june the 18th, we left Igea Marina. As we usually do, we simply started driving north, we never know exactly where we're going or stopping. We went on until we reached Garda lake and we spent the night in this camping . We found it very expensive and not nice at all, but it was only for one night so ...

Here a pic of us next morning before leaving, while having a walk around the lake

After Lazise we went through Brennero Pass and left Italy for around 10 weeks.

As soon as possible more pics and stories.