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Györgyi Gábor: From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)
After getting experiences on five cycletours in Slovakia and two in Austria and Slovenia in july 2000 I was ready to bike on my most serious tour in my life: to push the pedals from my favourite area, the Dolomites - which is said to be one of the world’s most beaufiful mountain-ranges – reaching the Adriatic sea to Nagykanizsa, a hungarian town next to the border. As in last year this year I also travelled to Cavalese, the place of our holiday with my parents, from where I set out the 1400km long – with a 3 day long detour – homeway after a week long training, warming up and programs together with my parents. In every case I wanted to visit the wonderful Lake Garda – which I only heard about – and Venice that I liked from the videos, but where I also hadn’t been before. During the week I spent in the Dolomites with my parents I made three beautiful cycletours and managed to cycle through some passes.

Biketour from the Dolomites to Hungary

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to do, where to try to sleep. At last I decided to spend my night not next to Padova, but more closer to Venice, maybe next to Mestre. In Vicenza I found very nice the the graceful Renaissance buildings, palaces. This town is said to be a favourite town of those people who like the art of architecture. I left the next town, Padova about the time of the sunset. The lamps were lighting in the romantic villages situated on the shore of the channel close to the sea. Cycling next to the channels had a pleasant atmosphere; tourists were walking it the centers of the villages, I hear musicvoice from the restaurants; it was tipical evening-life. Unfortunately the road was busy. I arrived at the first camping that was shown by a table a little before 22 pm.

7. day: Mestre – Treviso – Lido di Jesolo – Cavallino = 97 km + 30 m heightdifference
Although the next camping where I wanted to spent my night was on the peninsula of Jesolo only 60kms away, I thought I had time to visit Treviso on a detour. The town had totally other character than Vicenza. In Treviso most of the buildings were built using red or brown bricks. I spent one hour in this atmospheric town with a nice park then I tried to cycle fast away from there because of the light rain. On the road of the Cavallino peninsula I had to bike very carefully because of the huge numbers of the cars and some lorries. The road was thin, the row of the cars was long; it wasn’t a surprise that after when a lorry had overtaken me I felt relief a little bit. I think they also wasn’t happy to meet a cyclist with a wide pack on that road. After building up my tent I walked to the Adria beach. I couldn’t see any people to bath or swim in the sea, because of the weather. The people were walking or playing in the sand in long armed clothes along the beach. Some of them flyed a kite.

8th day: Venice (without bike)
With a combined ticket ...