Category: Bikepacking Germany Sicily
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Stage 14: Lucca – Gambassi Terme
I think we have a problem We were now back on the Eurovelo 5 route which is going to take us through Tuscany, basically the whole track is following the via Francigena pilgrim path. This has some ups and downs as it means a predefined path away from the main roads (most of the time
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Stage 12: Levanto – Tellaro
Beautiful coast After our one day recovery we were recharged and ready to move on. Looking at the stage it was definitely good to start it recharged since it began with some heavy climbing. From almost 0 at sea level to 500m up the mountaneous coast. The climb was tough but once again we were
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Stage 11: Borgo Val Di Toro – Levanto
Sea here we come The day started with a great breakfast in our lovely B&B. Once we had all our things packed again we descended back into village, where we noticed that we are on the same road the Giro d’Italia would pass by a few days later. In any case for us it was
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Stage 10: Salsmaggiore – Borgo Val di Toro
Another great B&B What at first did not seem to be a too long stage turned out to be actually quite long after I noticed that the initial planning was taking us on some gravel roads on through the mountains, which is simply no fun at all so we decided to go around this which
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Stage 8: Vigevano – Castel San Giovani
This wasn’t on the plan After we got oursevelves some really good croissants from a bakery nearby we packed our things and got going. There is not too much to say about this stage. Since there was no campsite near by our destination we picked a Bed & Breakfast somehwere in the countryside a bit
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Stage 9: Castel San Giovani – Salsamaggiore
And we ride, and we ride, and we ride There is actually not much to tell about this stage. We followed the Po Valley to Piacenza. This was probably the best city crossing I had so far, really cyclist friendly very few traffic lights so we made through in no time. Afterwards the road was
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Stage7: Lago Maggiore – Vigevano
Good times The day started great with some coffee provided by our super nice campground neighbors. Again we had just perfect weather blue sky and a nice 25 degrees. And it only got better. After leaving the lake behind us we followed the Ticino river and once again the Italian’s have created a super nice
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Stage 6: Bellinzona – Lago Maggiore
Ciao Bella Italia This was the first time (and actually only time) we decided to divert from the route that I had originally planned for us. Originally I wanted to ride along lake Como, and then take the train to pass Milano. But we all felt well our legs not too tired after the heavy
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Stage 5: Splügen – Bellinzona
To get to the pass to our route took us on a small road through some more small villages away from the main road, unfortunately with some climbing as well, which meant we did the first 150m of climbing just to go them down again before the actual pass started. As expected on the pass
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Stage 4: Landquart – Splügen
It’s getting serious This day started again with bright sunshine in beautiful Graubünden and we followed the Rhine further up towards Splügen our destination for the day. This will be the first serious uphill stage taking us to 1400m. The uphill is quite famous and called via mala (bad road) a road following a rocky