My own Giro d’Italia
Monday, August 12th, 2013After the long rainy spring, summer finally did arrive in June! We have a “To Do” list of interesting activities in the area and it keeps getting longer. The next few blogs will be about some of things we’ve already done so far this summer. There are many bike trails in the area and we use them fairly often for short rides after work or on weekend. However, there is also a trail which goes all the way to the Adriatic Sea. While we didn’t take it quite that far, we did spend a nice day riding to Italy for lunch and back.
As an American, it’s still very weird for me to just go to another country for the day, especially when the language and the food are so different from Austria. It’s even stranger to go there on my bike! The Italian part of the trail is mostly built on an old unused railroad line, so it includes bridges high above mountain rivers and lots of tunnels. We enjoyed it so much that we went back again a few weeks later and rode all the way to Venzone, a medieval walled city, and then took a train home.
Here is Eric’s bike parked on the border:
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