The road to Syria and Jordan. Motorhome trip to the Middle East. Part 1, Italy

This trip was not to be done. This year Tina, my wife had a big problem with the teeth, operations, medications and a variety of applications, so a problem that had lasted over time and with a substantial cost. The dentist came to my aid, and between a transaction and another had to spend at least 60 days, just long enough to make this trip by his friend Lawrence asked about the Desert Club last minute Tina has agreed to place, and we started.
The trip, departing from Ancona April 30 begins with a ferry that will take us to Patras and from there, through Greece and Turkey will reach Syria and then Jordan, our main goals. In return, the crossing will be shipping from Cesme in Turkey with more landing in Ancona on May 10 and then journey's end.

These are our costs of travel:

Medicines and vaccines € 162
Maps and guide € 61
Mechanical preparation camper € 290
Phone € 50
Food € 548
Fuel € 944
Tipping € 65
Highway € 55
Entry sites and museums € 160
Parking € 32
Stamp passports € 80
Souvenir € 255
Restaurant € 455
Newspapers € 40
Bar € 60

Total € 3237

Quota Club Desert ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .... ... .... € 3133

Total ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... € 6370

 

Cesenatico – Conad parking

After closing everything they could at home, we left not before he had discovered sketch, as usual, seeing load the camper, but you hide it is just because it is enough to call him and he responds.
First stop for lunch at Porto Garibaldi, Cesenatico then for dinner.
Visit the historic center with its port channel, with boats anchored part of the historical museum of the Navy.

Ancona port – Fair parking

We continue the trip on the Adriatic, stopping for lunch at Fano while stopping evening planned for the Tom-Tom Ancona, Via Marconi, where the Pilot book lists area equipped with loading and unloading and electricity. Absolute disappointment: there is no current, but this is not a problem, the water supply and discharge is located in a corner, very difficult to be exploited in a very busy and narrow. The mayor should be ashamed of Ancona. We move to the marina and parked the camper between various trucks like us before boarding, we spend a quiet night.

Cruising...

We reach the boarding pier which is the meeting point with other participants in the trip. We're the first, then get a few at all. A crew already knew him, was with us in a previous trip to Russia. He made the first presentations with an inevitable amount of names that we will remember only the end of travel. We remember in 17 crews and 34 names is not an easy thing. Lawrence, the group leader, gives us the latest information and each assigns a number to be applied to the camper: This will be our position throughout the trip. A rotation in the morning and after lunch break, the second after Lorenzo, will in the queue, so that everyone has the opportunity to travel both in the lead in the queue. When there's many, the column has an effective elastic and if the first is traveling at 90 times the last, for this effect, will travel to 130, which is not very pleasant because they are having to chase after those in front . It 'a very good thing that I have tried to understand in previous trips but that has never been collected.
The company is the ANEKAE Lines, the ship: F / B Hellenic Spirit
Arrange the campers in the capacious belly of the ship and placed in a cage for transport Sketch, we queue for the allocation of the cabin. And 'the n.8256, very beautiful, but has no portholes, Tina wants to sleep with the bathroom light on for not being in the dark. Sketch inspect every corner and instead puts on a bed, then moves over the other, is undecided ....
Dinner is at self-service where we find good things but dear: 40.95 € it seemed a bit 'expensive.
And 'later, everyone to bed.

Greece - Highway's service station parking

In Grecia siamo 2 ore in avanti rispetto all’Italia, una per il fuso orario, l’altra per l’ora legale.
In mattinata abbiamo girovagato sulla nave, chiacchierando qua e là con gli amici in attesa del mezzogiorno. Alcuni sono ritornati al selfservice mentre noi, senza farci scoprire e con Schizzo in gabbia, siamo andati sul camper a magiare le nostre cibarie ed abbiamo atteso lo sbarco verso le 14.30.
Proseguiamo verso la Turchia con l’autostrada che è ancora da completare ma provvista, ogni tanto, di sbarramento per il pagamento. Per la sosta notturna ci fermiamo presso un distributore di benzina che in un piazzale antistante, non troppo pulito, ci ospita.

To be continued on:
The road to Syria and Jordan. Motorhome trip to the Middle East. Part 2, Turkey