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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...

From the snowy mountains to the sandy beach (2000)

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 19:55:23

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numbers of the cars. I said goodbye to the lake with a nice photo. From Rovereto I chose the long passroad to the 162m high Passo pian delle Fugazze towards Vicenza. Cycling between 2000m high mountains and looking at two turquoise lakes I found a little trafficked wonderful road. The 27 km long climb started with some steep sections but there were nice views to the mountains, to the valley, and to the lakes. The section in the middle was almost flat, here I could gather some energy for the last steep section. On the steep and twisting descent I had to be careful. On this slope I arrived at the plane; there wasn’t any mountains in front of me. In spite of a puncture I had before Schio and it took time to change the tyre, during cycling towards Vicenza I was thinking about what 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 ...