Adventures in Campsirago
The day started like any other in Campsirago. Up around 7, put in a days works and we were all excited to head down to town and watch a play this evening.
So after dinner we prepared to leave for the play and we got the first sign that we shouldn’t leave, we couldn’t find the van keys.
Once we found the keys we where on our way, Several kilometers down the road on a narrow stretch (one car width) there was a bang coming from underneath the van. This followed by us stopping suddenly. Thinking we had a flat tire we all jumped out to have a look. We were quite surprised to find the front right axel had snapped and the tire was now more horizontal than vertical.
This turned out to be quite the predicament because of the small windy mountain road we were on combined with fog and dropping temperature. The weather made some prime conditions for icy roads as well. Did I mention that we didn’t have a phone?
Luckily for us a couple of cars followed us down the road shortly after the incident and one of the drivers turned out to be one of our neighbors in Campsirago. The nice neighbor man brought Nadja back to the camp where she called the police. The nice polizia game her another number to call for a tow service. But due to the icy roads no tow trucks where willing to head out in the current conditions, wasn’t that bad.
When Nadja returned we made the decision to hike back to Campsirago, fortunately I wore my dress shoes so I was read to hike up the icy roads. An indeterminate amount of time later we arrived in at camp and after waiting 2 hours we have just heard from Simone. He is with Martial and Nadja and they’re heading back to camp now.
