We recced this campsite on the way home last year and it has lived up to expectations – great views, right on the lake and surrounded by huge peaks. See views from tent and lake below.
Most of you will remember we had to replace our badly leaking tent from last year and that we then lost the first replacement on a windy night at Beck Head – destroyed on the barbed wire fence! Here is the new tent and extension – and tested immediately by usual mountain thunderstorms converging on us, just as we returned from the first night pizza (always eat out after driving and putting up tent). No leaks and everything still in place in the morning – result!!!
And for the first time we have electric - hurray, I am ecstatic. With my trusty little fan heater I can now warm up in morning or evening (though not that cold first day )– but we are at 2500’ so still time to cool down. as September progresses. Also got electric light and netbook plugged in for first time – we really know how to live it up, we do.
Spent our first day enjoying the sun, views and exploring lovely alpiney local village. Everything we need – supermarket 5 minutes walk, wifi on the campsite, great individual washrooms and showers, bar, restaurant, freezer for cold box slabs, washers, etc etc.
Interesting that since we visited last October they have restyled half the site and taken out the camping slots and replaced with gravelled slots for campervans and added 30 odd 1 and 2 bedroom chalets. Tents will be totally redundant soon – just us and a couple of other large ones + 5 or 6 overnight small ones with bikers and hikers. Majority are semi-permanent vans and extensions or campervans passing through. Season winding down now and after this weekend prices drop and little children depart back to Italian schools , where they belong! Then it will just be us and the lake and the mountains.
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