In the Summer of 1969 we went on a long camping holiday through Germany, Bavaria, and Italy. Our destination was a small seaside resort on the Adriatic coast, called Porto Recanati. During the weeks we stayed at the campsite, the children learned to dive under the waves with their Italian friends and bring up starfish which they dried out on the sand, (probably cruel when I think about it now), and empty sea urchin cases.
