The day before the SwimTrek started...

... I took the ferry to the main island of the archipelago, La Maddalena, to spend the night at another campground.

Found out it's run by Germans (or at least German-speakers) that are very unfriendly, as are the people working there, but...

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(it was so bad, they gave me a 10% off voucher for the restaurant, but I was not able to aquire food or drink there)

But I had a nice swim in the afternoon!



On the way there



I had noticed a dive shop sign... so I did some dives with them the next day! (they had no connections to the camp people, the diveshop just happened to be on the campground, I couldn't find out how that happened... but was v. glad! Exellent dives!)



From the campground it was only a 15 min drive back to town, and the hotel where us swimtrekkers stayed only a couple of min drive farther (about a 30 min walk). I checked in and...

... will tell you about Day 1 of the Swimtrek tomorrow ;)