{"id":20354,"date":"2016-03-20T18:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T18:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=20354"},"modified":"2019-04-02T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T12:00:24","slug":"theres-no-flat-land-in-san-marino-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/theres-no-flat-land-in-san-marino-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No Flat Land in San Marino Folks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s on a wonk folks. You need to take a run up to get into the kitchen. Why? We&#8217;re in San Marino, where\u00a0there is no naturally flat land in the whole country; everywhere&#8217;s on a wonk. Our kipping spot for the night is one of the official motohome sostas, the one within a few minutes\u00a0reach of the old town (N43.93536,\u00a0E12.44392). It&#8217;s \u20ac8 a day here, which we opted to pay as the other freebie sosta was eerily devoid of life, perhaps as the cable car&#8217;s not in operation at the mo! We needed to leave Charlie in the van as he&#8217;s hobbling about after his stick-chasing shenanigans in Rimini, and just didn&#8217;t have a good feeling, so paid up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20368\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20368\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20368\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02438-1024x400-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"Zagan looking west to the Apennines, in one of the official motorhome sostas in San Marino\" width=\"620\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02438-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02438-1024x400-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02438-1024x400-768x300.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zagan looking west to the Apennines, in one of the official motorhome sostas in San Marino<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rimini, on first inspection, firmly lodged itself high on\u00a0my list of &#8216;places ruined by mass tourism, let&#8217;s get out of here&#8217;. On our third night in the place we found ourselves sat in a cool bar supping drinks in the old town area, surrounded by Italians all out to live the sweet life, with a couple of wooden platters of tapas-type nosh laid out before us. Back at the van we tucked into salted roast pork, which Ju bought in a huge all-town market earlier, the old chap carving off slithers with careful, deliberate movements, like a glass-blower fashioning a jug. Rimini grew on me!<\/p>\n<p>The Italians have\u00a0officially declared winter to be over with a massive bonfire (which we missed, but the smoke permeated the whole town). The beach bars were starting to open; Rimini was coming alive. The town&#8217;s website reported a house being confiscated, with a photo of scanty-clad\u00a0ladies covering their faces as they left in a hurry. Another raid had recovered a boat load of cocaine. Yup, Rimini was firing up. Time to leave, before we became too attached!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20358\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20358\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20358\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02424-1024x547-1024x547.jpg\" alt=\"The road to San Marino\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02424-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02424-1024x547-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02424-1024x547-768x410.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The road to San Marino<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The run into San Marino from Rimini&#8217;s an easy one, dual carriageway most of the way. Zagan found himself in first gear a couple of times once we made it to the hilly\u00a0business end, once going downhill to engine-brake us out of the other sosta, and once crawling uphill. It&#8217;s easy to get a motorhome up here though, you don&#8217;t need one of these bad boys\u00a0to made the ascent:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20355\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20355\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20355\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02440-1024x658-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"Yes, I am jealous! For some reason off-road motorhomes always seem to be German, perhaps they're more adventurous than he rest of us?\" width=\"620\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02440-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02440-1024x658-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02440-1024x658-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, I am jealous! For some reason off-road motorhomes always seem to be German, perhaps they&#8217;re more adventurous than the rest of us?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>San Marino shouldn&#8217;t really exist. But it does, which makes it a very odd place, a city-state in a land where all the city states are long gone. Sat surrounded by Italy, it&#8217;s not in the Eurozone but uses the Euro, it has two concurrent heads of state chosen from opposing political parties in hommage to the old Roman ways, it has its own army, it has more vehicles than people, and it&#8217;s one of the richest countries in the world. Oh, and it once scored a world cup goal against England in about 3 seconds flat, remember that? It&#8217;s remained autonomous as much by luck as by judgement over the years. When the modern Italian national state was formed 150 years back, merging all but the Vatican and here into a single state, it retained independence as it had supported the\u00a0<em>risorgimento<\/em> movement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20376\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20376\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20376\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02518-1024x400-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"San Marino!\" width=\"620\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02518-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02518-1024x400-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02518-1024x400-768x300.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Marino!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the last war San Marino opted to stay true to its founding principles of freedom and peace, and declared neutrality. Can you imagine it? The entire Italian country surrounded it at war and it chose to have no part in it? Good for them. As we stood on the ramparts looking east towards Rimini, I tried to imagine what it must have been like to have such a vantage point as the Allied air forces bombed the place to dust. The Royal Air Force did bomb here once, incorrectly thinking Germany had overrun the place, killing 35 people and presumably doing rather a lot of damage, which Britain\u00a0later paid a whole \u00a380,000 in reparations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20377\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20377\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20377\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02543-1024x400-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"San Marino's seat of government and statue of liberty\" width=\"620\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02543-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02543-1024x400-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02543-1024x400-768x300.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Marino&#8217;s seat of government and statue of liberty<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On a warm spring day in March, the city&#8217;s very pleasant to wander, and the views east out to the Adriatic and west over the mountains towards Tuscany, are a pure joy. Everyone still speaks Italian, but it&#8217;s clear this isn&#8217;t Italy.\u00a0The buildings and pathways are all immaculate, in direct contrast to the sea of Italy which surrounds us. Shops either sell high-end luxury goods, or tat, with not much in between (I&#8217;m counting BB guns, knock-off perfume and &#8216;I love San Marino&#8217; condoms as tat).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20378\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20378\" class=\"wp-image-20378 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02525-1024x512-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02525 (1024x512)\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02525-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02525-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02525-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ju bought a bottle of wine and got a San Marino \u20ac1 in the change, saving us from having to buy a \u20ac1 coin. Nope, I&#8217;ve no idea how much they were charging for them!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20374\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20374\" class=\"wp-image-20374 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02493-1024x392-1024x392.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02493 (1024x392)\" width=\"620\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02493-1024x392.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02493-1024x392-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02493-1024x392-768x294.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hitler beer anyone?<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20372\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20372\" class=\"wp-image-20372 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02550-1024x512-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02550 (1024x512)\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02550-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02550-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02550-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here&#8217;s your AK47 son, now don&#8217;t say I never buy you anything<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20363\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20363\" class=\"wp-image-20363 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02499-1024x552-1024x552.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02499 (1024x552)\" width=\"620\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02499-1024x552.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02499-1024x552-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02499-1024x552-768x414.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rip-off perfume at \u20ac5 a pop folks<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20357\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20357\" class=\"wp-image-20357 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02539-1024x767-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02539 (1024x767)\" width=\"620\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02539-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02539-1024x767-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02539-1024x767-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02539-1024x767-174x131.jpg 174w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02539-1024x767-70x53.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Errmmmmm<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20359\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20359\" class=\"wp-image-20359 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02495-1024x583-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02495 (1024x583)\" width=\"620\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02495-1024x583.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02495-1024x583-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02495-1024x583-768x437.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mum, if you&#8217;re reading this, we both know this is the kind of plastic rubbish which you&#8217;d have in your luggage on t&#8217;bus home!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We asked each other what we thought of San Marino earlier on. I couldn&#8217;t think of an answer, but fortunately for me Charlie&#8217;s face on the photo below sums up my feelings about the place.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20371\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20371\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20371\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02557-1024x540-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"What's San Marino like? Errrrmmmmm?\" width=\"620\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02557-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02557-1024x540-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02557-1024x540-768x405.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What&#8217;s San Marino like? Errrrmmmmm?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I guess if you&#8217;ve been to <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/carcassonne-stuff-of-boyhood-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carcassonne\u00a0<\/a>or <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/mist-to-sun-skirting-mont-saint-michel-into-avranches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mont Saint Michel<\/a>, you&#8217;ll have an idea what&#8217;s going on in my noggin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20370\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20370\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20370\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02532-1024x512-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"San Marino\" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02532-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02532-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02532-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Marino<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What other news in Team Zagan? Croatia is back on the agenda, via a ferry from Ancona. Hopefully the ferries will start to allow <a href=\"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/welcome-on-board-the-fantastic-in-palermo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">camping on board<\/a> again on 1 April, so we&#8217;ll be able to stay with Charlie on the crossing. Ju&#8217;s emailed the ferry company to ask. If they&#8217;re up for it, we&#8217;ll kick our heels for a couple of weeks in the Marche area of Italy, then head for the calm, blue waters of Hrvatska.\u00a0If not, we&#8217;ll head north, perhaps via Venice. Anyway,\u00a0a\u00a0few more piccies from San Marino guys&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20369\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20369\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20369\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02554-1024x618-1024x618.jpg\" alt=\"Coolest lolly pop man in the West\" width=\"620\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02554-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02554-1024x618-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02554-1024x618-768x464.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coolest lolly pop man in the West<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20373\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20373\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20373\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02489-1024x594-1024x594.jpg\" alt=\"Basilica del Santo\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02489-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02489-1024x594-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02489-1024x594-768x446.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Basilica del Santo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20364\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20364\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20364\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02491-1024x512-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"It's Palm Sunday today. No palms around here, so the devout carry olive branches instead \" width=\"620\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02491-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02491-1024x512-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02491-1024x512-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s Palm Sunday today. No palms around here, so the devout carry olive branches instead<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20366\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20366\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20366\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02443-682x1024-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Cat-dog harmony in San Marino. Wait a minute!\" width=\"620\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02443-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC02443-682x1024-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat-dog harmony in San Marino. Wait a minute!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zagan the motorhome&#8217;s on a wonk folks. You need to take a run up to get into the kitchen. Why? We&#8217;re in San Marino, where\u00a0there is no naturally flat land in the whole country; everywhere&#8217;s on a wonk. 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