Attention touring cyclists! You should all try to ride the FVG1, The Ciclovia Alpe Adria Cycle Path, that goes 400 km from Salzburg, Austria, to Grado on the Adriatic coast, at least once in your life. It’s fantastic! I went the other way, up from Italy, and this post is about the uphill section.
Category: Italy
#104 Venice
Venice is so wonderful it deserves a blog post all of its own. There was no cycling involved today; just a short bus trip over the causeway onto Venice Island itself, and then a whole day spent trooping around gawping, and not forgetting that it is actually a living city-within-a-city too, and the locals must…
#103 Crossing the Apennines
Considering Rome is hemmed-in by the unbroken mountain chains that make up the Apeninne Range, it’s remarkable how the ancient Romans were able to conquer and then hold on to all their various dominions throughout Europe. Communications must have been difficult. It was hard enough for me, 2,000 years later, to get across the range…
#102 Cinque Terre and the Riviera di Levante
I thought the last couple of days riding through the Riviera di Ponente would take some beating, and then straightaway came something even more awesome. The coastline to the east of Genoa is just as rugged as to the west, and then there’s the Cinque Terre, in a class of its own.
#101 The French Riviera and the Italian Riviera Ponente
I meet the Mediterranean coast at Saint Raphaël and head east, cycling the remaining ¾ of the Côte d’Azure (aka The French Riviera) to the Italian border at Ventimiglia. Then, in Italy, I cycle the Italian Riviera di Ponente, (or the ‘Western Riviera’) to Vesima, just before Genoa. This, guys, was a superb cycling experience,…