Driving a car around Italy has probably been more trouble than it’s worth. Once you get into the swing of driving in Italy it all becomes easier. We’ve seen plenty of funny sights. This one time, in Pisa, we were in a single lane road which had to give way and merge into another single lane road. The car directly behind us followed us as we merged into this other road. A car on the main road decided he didn’t want to let the other car in. They proceeded to drive next to each other refusing to admit the other in front. As our road merged with oncoming traffic, one car was forced to drive half in oncoming traffic, whilst the other had two wheels in the gravel. They each tried to get in front of the other – at one point the car half in oncoming traffic tried getting around us and had to break, and merge back into the single lane with the other car. When he finally got past us, the remaining car decided he had to over take the original car and sprinted off overtaking at speed.Italy has some of the greatest tunnels and bridges I’ve driven through. We often think our tunnels in Australia are massive engineering feats, but we must have driven through 20 – 30 tunnels between Pisa and Santa Margherita Ligure ranging in length from 100 meters ( like a bridge with a mountain on top ) to +2000 meters in length, with driving speeds up to 130km/h. They often popped out of mountains directly onto bridges across massive ravines, only to dive back into a mountain tunnel. Pretty cool. Trucks are always required to drive at 100km/h on the motorways, are are not allowed to overtake within tunnels. Pretty sensible and straightforward.We did a day trip from Santa Margherita Ligure to Cinque Terre and walked from the southern most town Riomaggiore to Vernazza. It took about 3 hours.IMG_1212It’s a great place to visit. Anyways, time to get off the internet. Ciao!