Today’s ride on Komoot And Part 2 Tarvisio was quite touristy but the tourists were generally older people on eBikes. It’s beautiful but it’s not my kind of place. Leaving was therefore easy. I didn’t even stop for my last macchiato in Italy. I did meet a Polish family cycling with their kids. I’m always …
Today’s ride on Komoot Minou and I caught the 5:49am train from Ljubljana to Trieste. (I’d caught this train more than a year earlier, with Dennis and Franklin as we escaped the flooding in Slovenia. We thought Italy would be drier but we were soon dodging the floods there too). Luckily, the room we had, …
I was in Puglia for just over 3 weeks and had a great time. The highlight was the 8 days riding with Timo, and catching up with him and Kath over the ten days that we were all in Puglia. Kath did a solo trek while we were riding. Most of the villages were absolutely …
Today’s ride on Komoot Last night, I went to Vincenzo’s recommended restaurant, run by his cousin. I was the only customer at 8pm so Dario, a younger relative looked after me and told me all about their food etc. As is the trend, all food was grown and prepared within 50kms of Bitonto. Dario is …
Today’s ride on Komoot Today would be an easy run up the coast with an occasional tailwind followed by a ride inland to Bitonto. I really didn’t know what to expect. I had to pay tourist tax of 6 euros but only had a 5 or a 20, and I had to leave it in …
Today’s ride on Komoot It was time to move. Brindisi just didn’t do it for me. I mean, it’s nice but it’s also a transit point to and from Greece. So, I doubt the locals really care about tourists, and fair enough. I left in some traffic but soon joined a very strange cycleway. It …
Today’s ride on Komoot I’m still lazy in the mornings and just made it onto the street at 10am, and went straight out of the place. I tried to resolve my phone problems last night but they wanted nearly 25 euros to activate a prepaid SIM card that would only work in Italy. It sounded …
Today’s ride on Komoot What a day. I woke up a little tired. It’s time for another rest but I just haven’t found a place here where I’d like to stay for a few days. Maybe in Puglia. I had breakfast at the BnB and got going. Outside, I loaded the days ride into my …
Today’s ride on Komoot The BnB is another that does an off site breakfast. It’s a good idea, especially at this time of the year. So, I went to another bustling cafe, this time just a couple of doors down the road. They were doing a roaring trade, with people dropping in for an espresso …
Today’s ride on Komoot The BnB was a bit disorganised and uncommunicative. I had to ask for things like wifi and what the breakfast arrangements were. Breakfast turned out to be provided by a cafe 400 metres away. They’re famous for their cornettos / croissants and boy, they were good. It was a bustling place …
