Campsites,Italy #10of13

We wanted to visit Yugoslavia, but information we had said campsites were not open in that country, this late in the year. We drove through Trieste, and found a campground in Monrupino, right near the border with Yugoslavia. There are few other people in the camp, but it's nearly filled with trailers that will remain here all year. The campsite restaurant is open for business. We spent three nights in this campsite, while we spent each day across the border touring Ljubljana, Postojna, and Pula, Yugoslavia.

We never found the advertised open campsite near Nocera Umbra, so we just parked in the parking lot near some apartments on the edge of the old downtown, and spent the night. We only do this when we have to, but with houses and apartments nearby, all was OK. Emmy had brought a bunch of pencils from Disneyland and gave a few to children playing near where we had camped. Boy, did they ever know of Disneyland. After dinner we followed the rough cobblestone streets past ancient stone buildings (many with balconies), to the very top of Nocera Umbra. We found a large church, and a very large supermarket. We had walked narrow cobblestone streets to get here, but found a wide street permitted vehicles to come to the market from the other side of the hill.

In the campsite at Pozzuoli, near Naples, family members of US Navy officers were living in the campsite, in small cottages for rent on a day to day basis. The officers were unhappy with the living condition for their families, and were eager to move into quarters on the Navy base. Our RV was a palace compared to some of the small apartments where they were billeted.

In the very large campsite near Soverato, many workers were trying to get the campsite ready for the beginning of the season, a few weeks after our visit. The busy season is June, July, and August, maybe to mid September. During that time they said the campsite is crowded with week-long and month-long visitors. The facilities were quite nice, and there were many hundreds of campsites for RVs, trailers, and tents, with dozens of small rooms and many permanently parked small trailers for rent. Most of the campers here during the season are Germans, but the only other RV in the campground this night was from Switzerland. The campsite owner said he doesn’t remember another American camper, ever.