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You’re right about Ferrara. It’s an exceptional place. I could live there.
2 years agoYup. Looks like invasive muskrats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat
Yes, probably an European pond turtle.
https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Emys&species=orbicularis
So many miles per day !! Your fitness levels must be rocketing ! So glad you’re making such great progress ! Here’s to a wonderful break in Venice ! Send love in tons and oodles of admiration ! Truly epic cycling tour and beautiful photies ! Xfrom your biggest fan 🙌❤️
2 years agoLoving your journey journal with all the trials and tribs ! Italy is so beautiful and self determined - in that even small towns seem to hold beauty and integrity and always good coffee and cake ! Good luck with the onward flow mes amies.💚🤍❤️
2 years agoA wall lizard genus Podarcis, but not enough detail to tell the species.
Likely either common wall lizard or Italian wall lizard would be my guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podarcis
Poplar saplings, I think. They’re grown all along the Po for pulp.
2 years agoBeautiful shot.
2 years agoI’m so glad Italy delivering for you - Grandpa ( my dad ) with you all the way - he was there during the war and loved it too ! And then Venice ! Magical amazing Venice ! There’s the restaurant that serves the best risotto ‘Alle Testiere’ Calle del Mondo Novo ! I hope you have a wonderful time ! X
2 years agoAh the Italians and the food ! Soooooo Lovely ! I can only say the language somewhat confounds me - but would be doable if one stayed there long enough ! So Glad you had the most beautiful day ! X
2 years agoI'm really enjoying your journal but I have to say, it's made me more sure than ever that I will always carry paper maps!
On our first trip to France, we bought them as we went along (no GPS back then) and just planned each day where we would go. Now I buy them for assistance in creating routes to load on my Garmin, as it's nice not to have to consult the map at every crossroads, but I still carry them for when plans change.
Yay ! What a wonderful outcome after some nasty bits !!
Nice Nice yes it is !Great photies as ever ! Hope the next days get you over the hill and over to Italy - it’ll be downhill all the way after that ! Love and hugs in abundance ! I love this honest reporting it helps me share your journey your pains and your joy ! Buckets (and spades) of love ! X
Definitely swerve Marseilles - far too busy ! Nite nite ❤️🌈
2 years agoIf you haven’t locked in your plan yet, you might consider riding to Aigues-Mortes, through the Camargue, and maybe pick up with the train in Martigues. It’s the flattest region in southern France.
2 years ago
I am envying the ride from Chogia along the outer islands of the Venice lagoon to Lido we loved it. Actually Lido is a great base to seeVenic, where no bikes are allowed, there are very frequent vaporetti. If you take your bikes across to Venice you can’t take them by vaporetta but must go about a kilometre along the harbour which takes you to the car ferry. You end up at the Trochotto Harbours ( spelling) which is on the edge of Venice near the train station
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