One of the great things about the campsite that we are currently staying in is the super-easy access to public transportation into Venice. This allows us to camp outside of the busy and bicycle-unfriendly city, while still being able to enjoy it with a 15 or 20 minute bus ride. Today we took advantage of […]
After the busy, dull ride yesterday, it was refreshing to roll out of camp to blue skies and very quiet farmland. The silence would have been almost perfect except for our new constant companion as of late- a headwind. With the gusts whistling by, we made slightly slow, but pretty good time. With no traffic […]
Let’s face it – we are really bad at bicycle touring. Between being a little bit too type A to sit still for 5 minutes, nervous about offending people, or unable to communicate (gesturing aside) from a majority of the population outside the large cities, this has been a stretch for us. We keep thinking […]
Before we had even been in Verona for a full hour yesterday, and actually before I had ever laid eyes on our campsite, Ben had already suggested that we stay another day and check it out. The very little bit of the city we had seen while dodging traffic yesterday was lovely and another day […]
We woke up to the steady drizzle in our drafty room this morning, glad to be indoors. The temperature has dropped significantly since our first arrival in Switzerland to a high of something in the neighborhood of 50* Fahrenheit and a really chilly overnight low. The weather was steady and inclement, as expected. People keep […]
Having spent our last night in Italy and having spent a few days off of the bike, we woke up ready to ride. we broke down our camp after eating a breakfast of leftover pasta and olive focaccia, and set off toward the French Riviera. Yesterday when Bree spoke with the attendant at the train […]
We began our day bright and early with plans to catch the 8:00 train out of Pisa. We go to great lengths out here to avoid actually committing ourselves to anything, so we hadn’t actually bought the tickets, but we were planning on making the train. We were packed up and on the road by […]
With our side trip to Rome under our belts, we went to bed not quite sure where we were going to go next. After a lot of research, a lot of discussion, a lot of “I don’t know… where do you want to go?”‘s, and finally an arbitrarily contrived decision, we have decided to train […]
This morning we decided to do something pretty much unheard of for us on this trip and sleep in, and then use the rest of the morning to get a few things organized and taken care of before we headed back into Rome. We’ve quickly discovered that being full time travelers doesn’t exempt us from […]
We woke up this morning, grateful to be in such a nice, clean, quiet campground. Although it was a little bit chilly as the sun had not come up over the terraced hill on which our tent is pitched, we were excited to have a day to explore Rome. Up for today was the Vatican […]
After our very long day walking around the Vatican and strolling the streets of Rome, the night had pretty much gotten away from us before we had time to make any dinner. Ben was still determined to eat good wood burning oven pizza and we’d seen the cool ovens at our campground restaurant, so we […]
We turned in for the night basically as soon as it was dark last night, in part because of my imposed “boar curfew” since dusk was when they showed up last time we free camped. It was a bit irrational since the brush was so thick we could barely move around and there were no […]