20 Jun 2025 | cycling, travel, universe
I start out early from Lugano and after one short hill, I ride down into valley just before Bellinzona and start following the Ticino river. I follow the river upstream into the Valle Leventina, which I already know from hiking and bouldering, but I’m pleasantly...
19 Jun 2025 | cycling, travel, universe
I ride along the Adda river today, basically from where I start just after Cremona to Merate, at the edge of the northern Italian lakes. This is a real river, with blue, clean water, and enough of it to swim. The roads and paths are very mixed again today. A very few...
18 Jun 2025 | cycling, travel, universe
The morning kind of drags on. Even though the flat plains make rising relatively easy, the cycle paths I follow are a broad mix of gravel, trails, grass and small roads that make riding tedious. Combined with the overall stink of the canals, overfertilised fields and...
17 Jun 2025 | cycling, travel, universe
The night was windy and so is the morning. As I wake up, the clear sky slowly gets covered by clouds and rain can be seen on the horizon in the direction that I’m going in. I set off to see how far I can come before the rain front hits me and indeed, the first...
16 Jun 2025 | cycling, travel, universe
I ride down to Subbiano and start following the Arno rover upstream. The road is partially normal busy roads, but mostly quiet gravel paths. In Stia, just before the main climb of the day, I take an ice cream break. I then ride up a beautiful even road and down...
15 Jun 2025 | cycling, travel, universe
I wake up to find that my t-shirt hanging on my bike has been destroyed over night by something that apparently like to eat sweaty wool. Today I skip any further big cities and ride through the mountains north of Perguia. The sky is hazy this morning but that clears...
