This is the first time that I have attempted to up load a post using my crappy phone. So if it all ends in tears, blame Huawei (the manufactures of my crappy phone) Why am I using my phone, instead of my trusty laptop? Because Mrs Sensible and I are in the wilds of Liguria in a tent!!
Normally it is I who has brilliant, crazy, impulsive and impractical ideas and Mrs Sensible is… well normally sensible. So I was surprised when she announced that we were going camping.
My first response was We don’t own a tent and we haven’t one of those fires that boy scouts cook their beans on. Mrs S said, It is all arranged we just need to take some bedding and a bed.
For the life of me, I really didn’t know how we were going to fit our bed in our little mini, especially as I needed room for my bucket and spade.
Sara, a friend of ours is lending us a blow up bed, exclaimed Mrs S.
And once again Mrs Sensible was correct. On the way to the seaside we stopped at Sara’s house and collected the bed that Mrs S had thoughtfully organised.
What then followed, was a discussion on who got to sleep on the ‘single’ blow up bed and me pleading with Mrs S that it might be possible to fit our double bed in our Mini if we leave either my bucket and spade or her hairdryer.
Anna and Roberto were waiting for us at the campsite, with our tent and camping gear already erected next to their tent. They very kindly treat us to a wonderful 3 or maybe 4 course fish supper and all thoughts of our sleeping predicament evaporated as I sank just one more glass of limoncello.
And who slept on the single blow up bed and who roughed it on the floor? I will tell you tomorrow when I upload pics of the camp toilets.
See you tomorrow, Love Pecora Nera and Mrs Sensible
Englishman in Italy 
Huawei did you do it??? Liguria … is that one of the outer moons of Jupiter…? Who’s looking after Scoobydoo??
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Liguria is the seaside and it is only 90 mins from our house. But it is a long way when you only have 1 blow up bed between 2
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…I take it the Huawei is programmed to curb excessive commenting.
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Huawei is locally known as throwaway
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It is programmed to drive the owner mad
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Well, it certainly won’t get a spot on that coveted lilo – mattress, I mean! – tonight.
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Ah bless, you made me laugh, after a bad day of unloading a van in miday sun of personnel possessions from England, finally made it, Italy is now my home, all bridges burnt, scary. Lol
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You will love it, providing you have brought some tea bags and your sense if humour
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Yup, tea bags, Nescafé, bisto and the list goes on.
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Ah yes BACON, we did bring a packs frozen in the motor home but they have already been demolished, ahh what’s a Sunday morning without a bacon butty? Rubbish that’s what…
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And bacon
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I cracked up laughing when I read this post!!hilariously funny can’t wait to read tommorows post! I am writing from Hamilton Ontario Canada and it us
It is pouring rain and our children and grandchildren are all at the cottage up north I wonder how they are doing?
Thank you for sharing
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We have sunshine wine and no campbeds
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Hi Maxine sorry I took so long to reply, I lost your comment :-\
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By the way it is raining here and the mosquitos are going crazy.
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Great that Mrs. Sensible got an idea like this, but what about your white beauty? I don’t think, that he will appreciate this kind of bed 😀
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The Scabby white cat?? He has disowned us and is living with Luigina at the moment. ;(
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Didn’t you treat him good enough? Maybe he got a soft bed 😉
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He scratched me last time we went to see him:-( I think he is sulking
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He seems a little mad at you when he scratched you
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He has always scratched me… he would purr and I would stroke him or scratch behind his ear, and suddenly he would claw me and run off. After that we used to play with the garden hose pipe, he would run around the garden and I would attempt to soak him with lovely cold water.
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He he he he he, I think he miss you very much 😀
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More likely a soft head
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a few more limoncellos and it won’t matter who’s on the ground and who’s on the blow up mattress.
Who is left behind feeding and caring for Scooby Do or did you bring him with you? He will like the fish dinner. . .
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Luigina and Gilda (the incredibly fat dog with short legs) are looking after Scooby Doo at the moment. We had an interesting discussion on who should sleep on the bed and who got the floor 😉
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…. where in Liguria, where in Liguria, up in the hills above which sea resort ? or by the beach where?
I spent very many VERY HAPPY summers in Liguria as a child and teenager…..It was really idyllic then, no big car parks and overbuilt shoreline, the hill trails full of ripe blackberries and wild figs … Have a good time and don’t forget ‘ il bagno della mezzanotte ‘ when the moon is out!
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I think is was called Finale Liguria, we camped very close to the beach. After a few limoncellos I tried to persuade Mrs Sensible to go Skinny Dipping with me but she wouldn’t, nor would she let me go by myself 😦
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Yeh. I’m not the camping type these days. There is something that just doesn’t do it for me about waking up at the crack of dawn and having the sun beating down on my head as I’m trying to go back to sleep.
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Me neither, I prefer a nice comfy bed, my days of camping are long gone, however Mrs S has started to make noises such as, how much is a tent and how much is a blow up bed for 2 people….
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Oh dear! Run and hide. Or look out for really good deals in for hotel rooms. lol
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it sounds wonderful can’t wait to hear how it went )
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It was manic…. I will upload the rest later today or ASP (at some point)
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waiting for the rest of the story 😊
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I have the pictures, I just need to add the words 🙂
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Oh god, you poor thing. Camping is my worst nightmare. But at least you’re in Italy where not that many things can kill you – I did it in Oz… 😉
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In OZ with the snakes and the spiders!!!!! I prefer Italy with the wine and limoncello….;
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And the dingoes 😉 I didn’t sleep a wink 🙂
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I slept like a log, but then there are no dingos in Italy
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Where have you been all my life? You are hysterical… Really and truly lol. Don’t know what’s funnier, your narrative or your pics! Love the hair dryer…
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Thanks for the nice comment. I have been here trying to stay out of trouble
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Had a run in or two with blow up beds me self. Mental scars and all that…..
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This blow up bed didn’t even have arms or legs ;
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Matron!
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One air-bed between two? Spells trouble, does that. Couldn’t you run to buying a lilo at the local bucket and spade shop? That or so much limoncello it won’t matter where you lie! 🙂
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When we got there the bucket and spade shop was closed, so I just drank lots of wine, grappa and limoncello and prepared myself for a sleepless night.
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Oh dear, Hubby just bought a Huawei phone. And it wasn’t particularly cheap, either.
As for camping, you are braver than me!!!! I would have dug my heels in and insisted on a real room, with actual walls and plumbing too. I imagine the only way to survive sleepingin a tent would be massive, record-breaking quantities of alcohol.
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I still don’t really believe this was Mrs Sensible’s idea. There is nothing sensible about camping. Nothing! Had you said a camper van I may just have believed you, but a tent? Come on…
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I promise you, it was her idea. Ask her when you come to our house
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If I get to your ‘house’ and find out it’s actually just a large tent I’m going to be very disappointed…
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Ha ha ha ha, I will be disappointed if you don’t bring some wine
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Drinks lots of limoncellos and your will have a wonderful camping trip!
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Ooooh glamping! We went up somewhere near Scarborough/Whitby to glamp and our “tent” looked nothing like your Italian one! I can’t wait to read more!
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It was good fun, we might consider getting some proper camping gear for next year. Including a bed for 2 people
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