Although Florence is beautiful, it's a big city full of tourists so one day was enough for us. We grabbed a short train ride north to Pianoro and then started riding to our warmshowers (a reciprocal hosting scheme for cycling tourists) hosts, Kris and Matteo in Sassoleone (South of Imola).
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| So steep that some pushing was required |
The ride from Pianoro was hot and difficult with some serious climbs.....
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| Romagna hill country |
....but stunning scenery
We arrived at Kris and Matt's on Saturday evening and they were in the midst of preparing pizza for dinner that we all enjoyed sitting outside of the farmhouse where they live. It was a great evening and, after the ride, lots of pizza and beer (which is what you're supposed to drink with pizza, apparently!), we had a great sleep.
Next morning we did a small amount of work to help out....
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| Apricots in the dryer |
Then after lunch (frittata of zucchini flowers which we collected in the morning), they drove us to a favourite swimming spot on the Santerno river for swimming and lazing around on the rocks
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| Bri, Noah, Lori and Rasmus |
After the long hot walk back to the car, we had a nice cold water at the local source
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| Kris and the kids |
That night, we cooked and ate a meal together. Kris and Matteo started a global group called comecookandeat.org where people can visit others to cook and share a meal together - great concept!
I was asked to cook something from my background which, based on the available ingredients, turned out to be a veggie korma. Kris and Matt made beautiful pumpkin and potato gnocchi with tomato sauce or sage butter (all their produce).
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| Matt on gnocchi, Kris on sauce |
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| It was delicious! |
Thanks Kris, Matteo, Lori, Jora and Rasmus for having us!
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