Night owls

There's an hour's difference between BST and European time and so we're finding that early morning's are brighter but of course evenings close in earlier. Indeed by 6.30pm it is quite dark now. This isn't a challenge in a house (or a well equipped caravan); one simply settles down to watch TV or read a book or make a cup of tea or whatever. However when your living space is an awning, your choices of entertainment are more limited.
Mostly what we do is read a book or (in Marilena's case) write up her travel journal; very occasionally if the campsite WIFI is good enough we might watch some TV on the laptop.
The awning has a weak overhead light to stop us bumping into things but for reading/writing we wear head torches to beef up close-up illumination. This works well although it makes us look like a pair of techie night owls.

You're never alone when you camp in a wood full of Scops owls!

Speaking of which our current camping spot on the border between Basilicata and Calabria (near Italy's big toe) is in a small pine wood - pineta - and it's full of Common Scops owls which call out to each other for half of the night. Because we live near the park at home, we get the occasional owl hooting in the back garden. But nothing on this scale. The pineta seems to be full of owls! Yet despite their noisy presence at night I have as yet failed to see one of these birds during the day; it is a gang of ragtag magpies that rule the roost in the daylight hours.