....things about Italy is the old people coming over to chat with you. They know you can't speak Italian and neither can they speak any English. Still, they find it worthwhile to spend some time with you to figure out where you come from and what you're doing in Italy. This guy, for example, had bad hearing and didn't speak or understand a single word English. He spoke to(!) us for about 10 minutes and we did understand that he was an old cyclist. Nice chap!
At 1515 we reached Castelraimondo (Raymond's Castle). Today's stage took us 102km eastbound. We climbed 1250 meters and highest elevation was 818 meters. Different landscape than the two previous day, but still very nice. Started to rain heavily the last 500 meters, so we pushed our bikes to 45 kmh in the slight ascent to the hotel.
The hotel is a beautiful spa-hotel and that suits our sligthly tired, but still gourgeous looking bodies, perfect. We are now relaxing in the pool and waiting for the bar to open so we can get ourselves a well deserved bierra.
Cheers.
After 70km we reached Bagnara at an altitude of 644 m. We have climed a total of 1050 meters today, and I dare to say that this has so far been the hardest day for the group. Saying that we're still highly motivated and doing the last 30km will be like stealing ice cream from a 3 year old boy.
We are now about to enjoy lunch at Bagnara's only restaurant (?). Actually it is not a restaurant, but a shop where they sell more or less everything and the women working here offered to pull something together for us.
