Sunday July 4, 2004, 57 km (35 miles) – Total so far: 564 km (350 miles) According to our map there are basically two routes from Alleghe to Cortina, both of which take you over high mountain passes. We stopped…
Day 11: Cortina d’Ampezzo to Vittório Véneto
Monday July 5, 2004, 111 km (69 miles) – Total so far: 675 km (419 miles) Today’s ride should have been easy because it’s pretty much all downhill from Cortina to Venice. What we didn’t count on was the headwind,…
Day 12: Vittório Véneto to Cavallino
Tuesday July 6, 2004, 124 km (77 miles) – Total so far: 799 km (496 miles) Today was our last full day of riding of what has been a great two weeks in Italy. Now we’ve cleared the Dolomites the…
Day 13: Burano and Murano
Wednesday July 7, 2004, 20 km (12 miles) – Total so far: 819 km (509 miles) It was roughly a 10km ride each way from our campsite to the port at Treporti where you can catch the waterbus to Venice…
Day 14: Venézia
Thursday July 8, 2004, 20 km (12 miles) – Total so far: 839 km (521 miles) Venice – history’s most compelling evidence for the belief that humans can occasionally improve upon nature. Obviously not much cycling took place here other…
Day 15: Venézia #2
Friday July 9, 2004, 20 km (12 miles) – Total so far: 859 km (534 miles) Today was the penultimate day of our holiday. Again we cycled the length of Cavallino to Treporti and caught the waterbus to Venice. The…
Day 16: Cavallino to Chesham
Saturday July 10, 2004, 66 km (41 miles) – Total so far: 925 km (575 miles) We packed up early for the 25km ride back from Cavallino to the airport. Checking in was was less tricky than in London, although…
Day 93: Briançon to Avigliana
Tuesday July 5, 2005, 115 km (71 miles) – Total so far: 5,432 km (3,375 miles) We packed up a wet tent and headed through Briançon (up a very steep hill) to the old town, we picked up a few…
Day 94: Avigliana to Ivrea
Wednesday July 6, 2005, 95 km (59 miles) – Total so far: 5,527 km (3,434 miles) It was difficult to find quiet roads to ride on today, our map showing what appears to be country lanes lead us down wide…
Day 95: Ivrea to Aruna
Thursday July 7, 2005, 122 km (76 miles) – Total so far: 5,649 km (3,510 miles) We enjoyed a much better ride today through some lovely countryside and roads that were not too busy. We are now in the foothills…