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  • Holiday 2019 Gozamite & Finrin Day 11

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    Luckily in the morning when we woke up it didn’t rain anymore. In the evening and during the night the rain was very heavy. So when we started to ride the road was wet and air was fresh…

    Val Raccolana

    The road in Raccolana valley starts from about 1300 meters in the east and it goes all the way down to Chiusaforte village (or town) in 391 meters! From there I wanted to ride north and check Passo del Cason di Lanza. But when I turned to that road there was a sign that it was closed. The alternative road SP112 from Pontebba to Moggio di Sotto was very nice too!

    One of the many bridges over Torrente Aupa river

    Then we were riding little bit north again. The route was about to climb to Monte Zoncolan from east. But I didn’t have routepoints in my GPS so it chose “the shortest possible” road to the top. This shortcut is not even a full road in google maps! But I did the whole road… with many rocks, fallen trees and lots of stuff and holes in the pavement! XR was totally ok with this road too. The actual road that climbs up to the mountain is not much wider. It makes the curves and corners in the middle of the skiing hill and it’s very steep in many places. At the top we had still cloudy weather and even few drops of rain fallin so we didn’t get nice pictures.

    Monte Zoncolan

    We made a short break in Ampezzo village. Found very small local shop and bought something to drink.

    Ampezzo

    Took a small mountain Pass called Cibiana. It climbs “only” to 1530 meters and there are restaurants and trees on the top so not much about nice views there.
    Then finally started the climb to Passo Staulanza. This I did back in 2017 but it was raining like hell then. Now the weather was nice and I could nicely enjoy the road and the power of S1000XR!
    I didn’t have any booking made for the night because I knew how it is around here. You can easily find guesthouses from every village! I made my first stop in Santa Fosca village in a small guesthouse called ” Albergo La Rondine” and they had a room for us. Plus there was a nice car parked outside -never seen it before!

    Lancia Appia 1960

    The 230km route for today was like this:

  • Holiday 2019 Gozamite & Finrin Day 10

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    And day 9 when we didn’t ride at all. After breakfast we took a walk to the local cross-hill. It was about 2 kilometers walk to this place and the air was already very hot! After few hundred meters I fell… Just took a wrong step and I was on my knees in the pavement. Luckily I was able to take the hit to the pavement mostly with my hands but I got this anyway to my knee:

    Oops!

    Here’s the cross that we saw on the hill. It’s about 10-12 meters high!

    Crocifisso Fumak

    We planned to visit one cave but there was a risk of thunder… So we went only to the beach to enjoy the clear water of Adriatic sea!

    Day 10 we started the ride back home (kind of)…
    First we took the curvy road up to the mountains and closer to Slovenia. This road has long history as the Lousiana -one of the most significant roads in Austria-Hungary already back in 19th century. The highest point was near Mrzle Vodice village at 928 meters.

    Mountain Pass? Ravno Podolje

    Then we were in Slovenia! The temperature was much cooler since we were quite high -maybe about 500 meters above sea level. The road was quite nice ride until we rode under the Highway that goes southwest from Ljublana. After that the road was totally amazing!! Our route reached the road 102 and after Godovič there was totally crazy part where the road was following the canyon river and the walls were climbing high on both sides.

    Viaduct Bača pri Modreju

    Under this Viaduct we took few pictures but mostly we were totally amazed by the views (and didn’t take any pictures!)
    Then our route turned to the northeast and we were following the Soca river until we turned to Mangart.

    Mangart

    After this rainy experience we’re again in Italy and we stayed in skiresort hotel in Sella Nevea village. The views were totally amazing and luckily we just took a short walk after the dinner before it started raining.

    Jôf di Montasio
    Monte Leupa

    The 290km’s route for this day:

  • Corsetour Day 10

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    This was about to come one of the hottest days in our tour so it was definately right decision to ride north via Autostrada! And after 2 hours of riding we’re already northside of Milano and riding the shores of Lago di Garda!
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    In Autostrada we only took short breaks to fill the tanks and riders…
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    In Garda we had 1 route to ride… The very special “Caveroad of Tremosine” in the westside of the lake. This was amazing short route where the road was sweeping inside the mountain. Here you can see the video of the ride:

    And one photo too:
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    We needed to ride few more miles before our destination…

    The Hotel is very much recommended by me and the whole group! (Hotel Residence Panorama di Forca)
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    The weather was so hot that you couldn’t see the Garda Lake… only some blurry/ foggy view.
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    But in the night the situation was better!
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    Also the restaurant in this hotel is very good!
    Route for day 10 was like his:

     

  • Corsetour Day 9

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    We would leave this beautiful island… oh yes. It would be wise to stay for example 1 week but we want to spend more time those roads in Europe! So early in the morning it’s time to choose same route back to Bastia -harbour. And then take the boat-trip to the mainland (Savona this time). One last picture from Corsica:
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    This is from this here. We’re riding so early we actually had time to have some kind of breakfast in the cafe near the harbour before the check-in to the boat.
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    But the trip takes more than 6 hours this time… so definately if you don’t want to put all day to your boat trip it’s better to choose Livorno – Bastia route.
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    We will be in Italy mainland about 6 a’clock in the afternoon… And the food is not cheap i the boat!
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    Then from Savona we had a nice ride through countryside… Lots of nice twisty small roads with nice scenery every now and then.
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    The hotel was in Ovada… Pretty nice hotel with garage but without restaurant.

  • Corsetour Day 5

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    Unfortunately we didn’t have time to get to know the city of Ravenna -I bet it would’ve been beautiful!
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    We took the big road to south and San Marino. The streets of San Marino are full with very expensive cars! We stopped on the “Other side of the mountain” when we saw some possible places to park the bikes. But there was no cafe or even a grocery store!
    The roads on the westside of San Marino… OMG! They are nice! There’s a corner after corner, twist after twist and some very nice views all the time!
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    Ducati Monster went straight to Ducati service in Ravenna. They couldn’t fix the starter but they did fix the rear brake! (Not the brakedisc though…)
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    From motocaching we marked “as found” these:
    San Marino from southwest, Passo dei Mandrioli and SR70 Consuma
    But the whole route from San Marino to Livorno is excellent riding!! There’s not much traffic, the scenery and views are great and you will certainly enjoy riding! I really recommend these roads!
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    The pink decorations are there because it was the 100th Giro d’Italia this may.
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    Video compilation of the day 5:

    This was the route for the day 5: