Welcome to Ashley & Pete's European vacation May, 2009. Initially we decided to take a trip to Northern Italy, then while looking at prices we found cheaper tickets with a layover in Spain or Switzerland. Then looking a little more we somehow came up with the idea to just fly in and out of Switzerland, rent a car and drive through the Alps into Italy, camping along the way, which is what we decided to do.

The first link for each day takes you through a sort of slideshow, showing a picture on each page and telling some stories along the way. You can get from one page to the next using the 'Next' and 'Pervious' links at the bottom of the page (note that you do have to click the actual word not just the box). The Thumbnails link is a link to thumbnails of all of the images.

Day 1 Switzerland (CH), land in Zurich and drive to Solothurn Day1 thumbnails

Day 2 drive from Solothurn to Spiez, Visp and camped in Täsch (CH) Day2 thumbnails

Day 3 hiking around Zermatt (CH) Day3 thumbnails

Day 4 Täsch to Sion (CH), to Vallee du Rhone (FR) to Valle D'Aosta (IT) Day4 thumbnails

Day 5 Valle D'Aosta (IT) to Genova, then to Bori Cavo Day5 thumbnails

Day 6 trip to Cinque Terre (Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza), then back to Bori Cavo Day6 thumbnails

Day 7 Bori Cavo to Fontanellato, skydiving in Reggio nell'Emilia, stayed in Parma Day7 thumbnails

Day 8 Parma to Mantua, camped on Lago (lake) di Garda Day8 thumbnails

Day 9 Valpolicella, Parco delle Cascate, Soave, camped near Venice Day9 thumbnails

Day 10 Venice Day10 thumbnails

Day 11 Venice to the Dolomites and straight through to Salzburg, Austria Day11 thumbnails

Day 12 Salzburg to Innsbruck, Austria Day12 thumbnails

Day 13 Innsbruck to Bavaria, Germany (Scholss Neuschwanstein) and on to Lake Constance (CH) Day13 thumbnails

Day 14 Lake Constance to Rhein Falls and back to Zurich Day14 thumbnails

It turns out that camping in Europe is very easy, I would highly reccomend it to anyone looking to travel and save money. All campgrounds had showers and at least a cafe, many had laundry, some even had swimming pools and other crazy stuff. This trip was incredible, we got to see a ton of things and had a lot of fun doing it. Originally we took almost 5000 pictures, so it took us quite a while to pick our favorites and sort them out. We can't wait to go back!