To Viterbo... Then Back To Switzerland

We left the Naples area after breakfast. It had rained most of the night and continued with heavy showers throughout the morning. Still hot though.

Took the road along the coast, which was lovely, although for the first part of the trip, the clouds were rather dramatic:-

It certainly looked dramatic when the clouds were so low they touched the tops of the hills, over cute little villages like this:-

The weather did start to improve though, and eventually it was like this:-

Nearing the outskirts of Rome, where better to see ramrod-straight Roman Roads... they did invent them after all! Here's a perfect example:-

We didn't go into Rome, it's a bit of a crazy place to drive in and we were heading elsewhere anyway so just went round the edge.

Hit Viterbo around teatime (late afternoon). It's a pretty, bustling little town in the hills. Our hotel was quite high up on one such hill, but we were only there for one night (last night), although it gave me time to catch the sun setting over the town from my bedroom window:-

Today it was off to Kriens in Switzerland, a journey of over 400 miles, which took all day. Left in sunshine which lasted to the Swiss border (about 300 of those 400 miles), then it turned colder. Not fun as stuck just before the Gotthard Tunnel for over two hours due to a car breaking down inside the tunnel and causing a temporary closure whilst it was recovered. 

We wandered around the (now crowded) shop at the services... which sold just about everything, including surgical masks! The traffic finally started moving again very slowly after we'd been there for a couple of hours, and it took some time more before we managed to get to the tunnel proper, when things finally got back to normal. Snow on the Alps meant the pass wasn't an option this time as it was on the way down so we just had to wait.


Am now in Kriens, in a hotel in the middle of an industrial estate (hence lack of photos), but it's just for tonight. Tomorrow we are going to visit Interlaken, which is a charming little place, and then another border crossing, into Germany, where we spend a couple of nights in a little town called Auggen, but that will be another entry...