We spent a couple of rest days at Montebello as we found a nice villa to stay in. We met a Dutch family there and watched the netherlands vs Mexico game with them. Finally we got to watch a game with some fans of a winning team!
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| Early morning ride from Montebello to Mondavio |
From Montebello we rode further southwards through Corinaldo, Ostra, San Marcello, Monsano, Santa Maria Nuova and beyond to find a camp spot in a sunflower field. This was our longest ride to date, about 70 kms, and with plenty of hills too.
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| Stan's bike waiting while we picnic. |
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| Typical picnic lunch. |
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| Monsano |
The next day we rode to the coast town of Sirolo, perched on the cliffs over the Adriatic. We stayed in the Internatzionale Campground and out of more than 200 sites we somehow got lucky and scored their best site with an amazing view of the beach.
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| Our little tent amongst the big players of June camping world. |
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| The view from our tent |
We spent two days here with great hot weather that kept us walking back down to the beach for another swim, us and about 500 other tourists.
The campground here was four star which means that it had, amongst other things, its own swimming pool and restaurant. In Australia you would not even risk eating in such a place, however we had already had a very good meal at a public swimming pool restaurant and had come to the conclusion that, in Italy, it doesn't matter where a restaurant is it is likely to do good food. We ate.....
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| Deep fried scampi, prawns,fish and calamari. |
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| Baked spigola with potatoes. |
On our second night here we went to a restaurant up in Sirolo for dinner and ate more seafood.
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| Seafood Antipasto |
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| Taglialini allo Scoglio |
Leaving Sirolo was hard, not just because we had had a nice time but because the road back up to the top of the cliff had a long series of hairpins. Climbing these with loaded panniers had us sweating even at 7.30 in the morning.
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