History repeated itself today ....
Yes the rain did come this morning, but it stopped around 10.30 so we set off on our bikes to discover the local 'ciclabile', first going east beside a smallish river through the wide valley.
The low wispy clouds were quite attractive at this stage and we found a picnic site to drink our flask and eat our fruit, but when we turned back towards Levico we could see some rather ominous ones looming!
But we also wanted to go the other way on the track to see Lago Di Caldonazzo, a much larger lake than Levico. This path took us through huge apple orchards (the apples aren't huge yet though),
but somehow we managed to follow a different set of cycle track signs to Caldonazzo and we ended up going through the small town before reaching the lake. That was fine except for the fact that the rain started coming down in big spots and .... this is the history bit .... just over 2 weeks ago this happened near Annecy and we dashed into a restaurant for shelter .... today we quickly leant the bikes against a tree and dashed into a gelato cafe! We did resist the ice creams though - hot drinks were more in order. Fortunately the cafe wasn't busy as we ended up stayed there for an hour and a half hoping the driving rain would stop.
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| View from the cafe window - NB bikes by tree and puddles! |
But it didn't so in the end we just had to go for it, wizzing through the puddles back to the van to dry off.
The photo of our map explains the geography. Our campsite is at N and the cafe at 10.
Great to hear about your travels and to see the lovely photo's. I like the idea of the icecream stop even if you did have a coffee to keep warm.
ReplyDeleteWe hope to catch up with you both when you get back home. John is slowly recovering well from his appendix emergency operation (on 7th March) and the garden is growing so keeping me rather busy at the moment with digging and John supervising. LOL. S xx
We hope that you have dried out by now!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your anniversary card. We missed you but we have had a very good day. It was wonderful to see old friends like Prue and David, and Pat and Graham from Wi cheater Road, together with my school friend Val and her husband, one of the boys from our youth club who is nowa Methodist Minister, together with family and Paigntin friends, Sadly som of our friends couldn't come because if chemo and medical problems, and very sadly one of our friends was taken into hospital with an infection in Friday but we were all shocks to learn that she died last night. So it's been a day of mixed emotions but it has been good to look back and rejoice in the good things. The setting here is beautiful, right in the middle of Dartmoor with sunshine, bluebells, birdsong and the best that Devon can offer. We are now looking forward to France in 10 days time.
We hope you continue to enjoy your travels xx