Our first experience with Autogrill, a restaurant chain popular in Italy and some other countries in Europe and Italian autostrada rest areas was after we left Verona on our way to our second destination which was Venice, Italy.
Autogrill is a restaurant which happened to be located in strategic rest areas along the highways of Italy. Autogrill and rest areas have become synonymous with each other thus when one say they stopped at Autogrill for the night they are actually saying they stopped at the rest area for the night.
It just so happened that Autogrill and rest area together is a perfect idea, in my opinion.
There are different sizes of buildings where Autogrill is located. Some are located in buildings where there is a huge restaurant, a coffee shop, a good size grocery store, washrooms and bathrooms while some Autogrill are located in buildings just enough to house the restaurant and some washrooms.
From Verona, we stopped at an Autogrill to have dinner (bought some bread and nutella too from the grocery store) and decided to stay in the rest area to pass the night. We thought it would be nice to target arriving in Venice in the morning.
We locked up, at first we were listening to noises from around and generally from outside and then later, guess what, we were asleep.
Again, a first time - our very first free camping or dry camping.
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