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!”
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,...
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....
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...
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...
…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...