Viva Italia!

Ciao!

As Jake might very well have said to Elwood: “We have two bikes, four panniers, three and a half lungs, one ceramic hip, and enough years between us to get back to Queen Victoria. It’s a thousand miles to Naples give or take – hit it!”
This, in the event, is the route we took, starting in Turin, ending up in Naples. The blue bits we rode; where the line is red, we followed some excellent advice on a cycle forum for those visiting Italy: “Think of the occasional train journey not as a failing or an admission of defeat but as a treat – like an ice cream!”

Map of Italy
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Yum yum!
We made a pretty good fist of it in the end! And the leftovers made a great sandwich lunch.
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Genoa, Italy
Hitting la citta
Down the coast to Genoa…a day of gentle slopes and vehicle-free paths, mostly right next to the sea, often swooping through ancient tunnels, with a dead-railway feel. Pretty,...
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Camogli, Liguria, Italy
Riviera daydream
Bit of a hiccup last night when our Airb&b bookee responded with blah de blah but there will be an additional charge, payable in cash, on arrival, for linen and taxes, of 22 euros....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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