Verona...

...was my next destination as I had to leave Torino behind heading back to catch the ferry to Greece from Ancona. Sad to leave good friends behind there, excited to see a city for the first time which turned out to be very good looking, expensive and kinda snobish-showing off.

The city offers nice spots by the river,

a beautiful entrance to the old city,

impressive Arena,

also impressive castle,

which offers great view to the river from its bridge,

high tower of the Catholic temple,

the Romeo and Juliet house,

and as most north Italian cities good looking squares like this one

P.S. Thanks a lot Alex for your helpful guidance!

Assietta...

...was an epic ride. Fog, rain, high altitude, gravel and amazing landscape. Now that I am back home and safe (I almost lost the front of my Suzi on a downhill but managed not to fall) I have the time to post some photos:

P.S. Thanks a lot Ant for escorting :)

Live from Igoumenitsa

I had a great sunrise earlier:

To be continued!

Today's ride to Pian della Mussa (Elevation-1850m):

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:

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1173586

Special thanks to him and all the nice PmB guys - see you again out there dudes ;)