Moving day today – and Nina’s 29^th birthday.  Little did we think, at this time last year, that on her next birthday she would be a mother, and we really miss not seeing her on her birthday.

Anyway – It poured with rain again overnight here so waited for things to clear up a bit before departing at a leisurely pace for the short trip, under two hours, to San Remo.  A very scenic journey, four small tolls on the way – 3.60€, 4.10€,2€ and 3€.

We duly took the San Remo turn off the motorway, still high up overlooking the sparkling sea – and there it all went wrong….. came to a t-junction - instant decision required. We had a 50/50 chance and we blew it and ended up taking the wrong road down to the sea front instead of going the main road way to San Remo centre and then going along the coast a bit.

However, after at least ten narrow hairpin bends and a lot of sweat and anguish (Anne) and a lot of white knuckles on the steering wheel and very tight jaw line (George) we made it down and found the caravan site signs – a really sharp right-hand turn back on ourselves to get on the approach road (no problem after what we’d just gone through) and arrived at the entrance…… and then carried on past it as it looked more like the exit. It had a no-entry sign on the gate post so we kept driving and ended up at a dead end!  A three point turn followed, yes, really three – the road was wide luckily, we entered the site and were allocated a pitch. (Still don’t know what the dead end sign relates to!)

This site is a total contrast to the last one. It is completely paved, with trees and small bushes growing out of the paviours. The marked pitches are very small, just enough room for the caravan with the car next to it, and very close together. It is also virtually full!  We unhitched and pushed the caravan onto the pitch with the help of two very nice Dutch men (although it’s very easy on paviours), put the kettle on as soon as we could and started to calm down and relax.

Although the pitches on this site are not ideal, the facilities here are brilliant – beautifully tiled modern washrooms, lovely swimming pool, restaurant, bar – and a lovely pebble beach right by the sea - although the coastline is rocky here. Marvellous.

When we arrived there was an airshow in progress in San Remo town just down the road so we went out on the beach here and watched it for a while (Anne with her fingers firmly in her ears). It turned out to be a fantastic show out over the bay with much of the action just in front of our beach. The finale was a great show by the Italian equivalent of the Red Arrows but with red white and green smoke!

Had a nice meal in the site restaurant which was packed with loud Italians and had a nice atmosphere. One spag bol, one pizza, bowl of frites, bread and a bottle of wine. Good food and good service for 26€. Not bad.

Lovely sunny day. We are due to stay here for two weeks – looking forward to exploring the area which neither of us has been to before.