Travelling in Italy in Setember (1 Viewer)

[Fenside1]

Hi
We are travelling for the month of September in Italy
Have done this by car for 2 years but have now bought our motorhome and will be towing a trailer as well.
Could anybody recommend sites in the Puglia area, we are unsure whether we need to book in advance or has anyone used the aires de sosta sites.
Any help would really be appreciated. Our route will be from Zeebrugge.
Many thanks

 

[DBK]

Welcome! We will be in Italy in September and I've been planning our route and identifying possible places to stay. Mostly, I use the CamperContact app to identify aires (or sostas in Italy) but we will also use campsites. The campsites will all be ones listed in the ACSI books.
Some of the Italian sostas are expensive and an ACSI rate campsite often not much more for a more pleasant place to stay in my experience. But there are free sostas usually created by villages called "area comunales". These can all be found with CamperContact (other sources are available ) and the app can be downloaded by searching for All Motorhome Parkings in the Apple or Android play stores. You need the paid version which costs about £5 per year. The ACSI books you can get from Vicarious Books or direct from ACSI. We won't be booking anywhere in advance.

My main worry is whether there is going to be any water available at places where we stop, given the current drought! I'm also hoping it will be a bit cooler than it is now. I expect it will still be hot - we are going to Sicily - so we took delivery today of a dog paddling pool for Charlie who hates the heat. He may have to share it with my feet though.

 

[Gaston aires]

We use the acsi sites in September. Prices are reasonable out of high season, and we had no need to book even in the lakes area.
Phil

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[Fenside1]

Thanks for the replies.
I am not very confident about not booking but will definately get the ACSI information.

 

[DBK]

Forgot to add - when you are away do post a few reports on here of where you are and what you have found. It's very easy to post images on here but worth working out how to do it before you leave.
Of course this opens up the whole subject of Internet access and the dark world of MiFi's!

 

[DBK]

Hi
We are travelling for the month of September in Italy
Have done this by car for 2 years but have now bought our motorhome and will be towing a trailer as well.
Could anybody recommend sites in the Puglia area, we are unsure whether we need to book in advance or has anyone used the aires de sosta sites.
Any help would really be appreciated. Our route will be from Zeebrugge.
Many thanks

I've used a couple of sites in Puglia, one on the Gargano Peninsula, which I can recommend and one near Alberobello. Details on this page: https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/three-go-adventuring-again.130193/page-11#post-1907132
The main error on the page is what I thought were Herring Gulls were actually Yellow Legged Gulls - I was corrected on my return by my ornithologically wiser elder brother. In my defence he did say it is very difficult to tell them apart if you can't see the eponymous legs but in southern Europe anything you see which looks like a Herring Gull will be a Yellow Legged one.

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[Jagtazman]

We stayed at a good asci site in Switzerland on the way down as camping international was full.
Good facilities
Camping Meierskappel
47.07.13N
8.26.49E