Today was a day as it should be. It started with a good breakfast of fruit, cereal and yoghurt followed by an italian breakfast featuring capucchino and pastry, this time filled with Nutella. Tara can’t have the bread before riding but she can have chocolate, but not Nutella since it is made of hazelnuts. Bummer ’cause it is good!
We had a straight forward ride south to catch the ferry to Elba except for one excellent diversion. When I started planning this trip one of the first bits I put on the list was a ride between Sassetta and Suverito, reportedly to be the most fun and scenic ride in all of Italy. So… we diverted from our flat coastal riding to climb 350m to Sassetta. The views were great but the road and route were unbelievable! 15km of the most fun you will ever have on a bicycle. Gently flowing downhill over the entire distance and never going longer than 50m without another hairpin turn, and and No traffic! Magnifico!
Ok, enough with the exclamations already. After that disneylandish stretch we booted to the ferry. It runs very frequently with 2 different companies vying for your business. I bought the tickets for all of us from a pseudo english speaking ticket lady who I thought had understood what I wanted, but… It ended up ok but instead of getting round trip tickets for 4 people and 2 bikes I only purchased one way tickets for 2 people and 2bikes. Between the purchase and the”ok” bit the captain seized my precious passport as ransom to assure we bought the other 2 tickets needed. Yikes.
It’s a quick ferry trip to Elba and the weather was completely gorgeous for us. In fact the forecast looks brilliant for the rest of the cycling now.
Our hotel is more like a resort with a great pool but it’s a ways out of town. We had to search a bit to find supper and ended up with a 1/2m long pizza from a hole in the wall takeout place and a bottle of wine from the hotel bar. What a fabuloso gionata.
Breakfast capucchini and brioche in Marina di Cecina
We get to take pictures of the other half of the team
Severito is the backdrop of this shot
Here comes the Moby ferry to Elba
.. And our friends can take pictures of us
Supper was your basic half a metre of pizza and a bottle of wine
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Just catching up on your blog…sounds like more adventure than you bargained for early on! Glad to see things have turned around for you and you’re enjoying every minute now. Enjoy!
These are the types of pictures I was expecting to see! Happy riding!