Tag: Sicily
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24: Baia Domizia – Napoli
My initial plan was to stay longer on the campground and then take the train passing Napoli straight to the site of Pompeii. But again as already after crossing the alps we thought that taking the train was just not right and that we should continue our way in the saddle. Also by that time
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23 Monticelli – Baia Domizia
Childhood memories Today only a short stage with ~35kms was on our schedule. The destination was a campground I stayed at with my parents when I was kid. To get there some climbing was ahead of us and then it would be a nice long descend down to the Mediterranean Sea for the second time
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22 Fiuggi – Monticelli
It’s only going down they (I) said In good mood with left the hotel after a nice Italian breakfast. I was a bit worried about my rear wheel, but it rolled and we wanted to keep going. this time a long stage was ahead of us, however the height profile showed it was basically only
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21: Tivoli – Fiugii
Everything good again After the ride in the heat and dusty surrounding we were curious what this day would bring. Distance wise it was not too long, less than 70km, however too long ascents where waiting for us. When I planned the route I chose it this way because it looked liked a nice road
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20: Bracciano – Tivoli
Hell Another day another stage, we started the day with our usual routine, and left the nice lake. And set our way for what seemed to be an average stage, approx. 70kms, no big climbs, no big deal. the route was set to get around in quite some distance to be not affected by the
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19: Bolsena – Bracciano
From lake to lake After oru usual breakfast and putting all our things on our bikes we hit the road again towards the next lakes on our route. For this we would have to cross the city Viterbo and afterwards a long climb with 500meters of climbing awaited us. Passing through th city wass definitely
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18: Pienza – Bolsena
Time to leave Tuscany But before we had another really nice ride throuh the Val d’orcia. Once more we had perfect riding conditions beautiful sunshine, light wind (for once not from the front) and nic eand curvy back roads. Exactly what we needed for this rather long and quite hilly stage. We made good progress
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17: Siena – Pienza
Happy and and motivated with a fixed a bike and some recovery we got on our bikes and, before we would leave Siena we made a stop a at post office to ship some of our clothes home which we would definitely not need on our tur anymore, like long sleeve jerseys and other stuff
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Stage 16: Siena
You have a big problem In the morning after a really good breakfast we packed our stuff and made our way to the (according to pictures) most promising bikeshop. I showed the guy Anja’s bike and explained the problem, he looked at it, looked at me and told me in a serious way: “You have
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15: Gambassi Terme – Siena
Visting Decathlon The next morning we started as usual after breakfast but somehow a bit tensed since we had to find a bikeshop to get Anja’s bike fixed. Riding with just a rear brake in hilly Tuscany loaded with luggage is just not good. To make things worse it was Sunday so all shops in