I had a great sunrise earlier:
To be continued!
10/07/2011
05/07/2011
Chilling at Torino (part 2) ...
...Slovenia was a small but nice parenthesis of the tour. Pretty green dense forests, nice roads to enjoy riding (scrapped my engine guard though my rear tire is almost finished), quite reasonably priced as a country.
On our way back to Italy we stopped at a very scenic spot to try the local recipies:
This fine bunch of guys consisting the PmB group had to split at . I followed the guys who headed west and we ended up at Riva del Garda. This place is one of the most relaxing I've ever visited...exactly what we needed after 3 days in a row doing many hundreds of km around the alps. Really gorgeous:
After a nice ride around this amazing lake with the special climate and vegetation we had to take the boring autostrada back to Torino for the last iron butt part of this fabulous trip.
Here's the whole route kindly offered by my good friend Antonello:
Special thanks to him and all the nice PmB guys - see you again out there dudes ;)
Chilling at Torino...
...gives me the chance to blog a bit about the amazing riding experience that took place compressed in the couple of days that just passed.
Hard to leave this beautiful view from my balkony at Dobbiaco,
but we had to move on.
Destination: Kranjska Gora @ Slovenia but first we had to do some nice passes and of course the well known Grossglockner. This is a MUST for any biker (or not) - period. The whole park is unbelievable, offering a great route plus countless spots for unforgetable photos. Unfortunately my battery died when we reached the marvellous glassier there but I managed to take some pictures before:
We had to ride partialy in dense mist. When we reached the top at the refugee it was quite cold and finnaly snowing! My coldest July ever I have to admit:
This hard but wonderful day ended at Kranjska Gora where we attacked the local recipes in huge quantities:
TO BE CONTINUED!
02/07/2011
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