Today is our last day of our two weeks stay in Italy. Tomorrow we will be driving to France to spend another week in the Jura region.
Since we didn't have a lot planned for today except packing the car I decided to make a third and final round in the area.
San Felice del Benaco
We've spent the past two weeks in a mobile home on a camping in San Felice del Benaco at the coast of lake Garda. It really is a beautiful region. Very green and the lake is surrounded by some beautiful hills.
It had been raining quite severe last night with lightning and hail, but this morning the sky had cleared up. Most roads were already dried up.
One of the things I was surprised about was the large number of cycling paths in between the different villages. They are a welcome alternative for the main roads where you can have a lot of traffic.
I cycled a quite some time along a river. On the way I came across some lovely Italian villages. I can't recall the name of this village, butI just love the scenic view of the brige with the castle in the background.
I also noticed that almost every town has his own church. No matter how small the town is. I've also spotted a lot of these little chappels. Some of them have catholic saints, but this one was devoted to holy Mary.
I had added quite some climbs in the route. Most of the roads have hairpins like the one above. It were some tough climbs with percentages going upto 15% sometimes, but the average was about 6% which is doable for a trained cyclist.
During the climb I had a perfec view over the valley. Here you can see how green the area actually is. And this is not strange since it rains here quite often and when it rains it rains hard I've experienced.
On the way back I really had to hurry a bit since there were some threatening skies. And they happened to be just in the direction I was heading.
Fortunately I made it back to the campsite just in time before it started raining again.
It was again a very nice ride. I'm satisfied with the 65 kilometers and almost 1000 meters of elevation in the three hour ride.
I really enjoyed my rides here. The roads are mostly good and they even have some cycling paths. But the people here are also used to cyclists on the main roads here, so they give you enough space.
Unfortunately we have to leave tomorrow, but we still have another week of holiday in France ahead.
I hope you enjoyed my ride.
FriendlyMoose
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