Just lately....

Monastero Bormid, Piedmont, Italy
Picture this
A few recent pics of this that and the other from the first week or so of our trip.
Minucciano, Tuscany, Italy
Up, up and away from the sea...
…and into the hills of Tuscany. By way of long, winding roads: nothing too steep, nothing really hard, but on and on and on, with the occasional monster-truck laden with marble from the quarries...
Pignone, Liguria, Italy
Tiny villages, big cities, long, long climbs
Today was always going to be a toughie. Jens’s wiggly line that shows elevation had a fair-sized bump, then a big bump, then lots of bumpiness. The fair size bump took us up to about 300m from sea...
Levanto, Liguria, Italy
Up, up, up, then down to the sea
Two km and change vertically to get over the peninsula and on our way towards the cinque terre – a legendary Unesco site of natural beauty, and one we’ll actually probably bypass, ‘cos...