Ride of the day: Milan to Reggio Emilia, 174 km sharp! Just like yesterday: all totally flat... and sweaty again! The highly agro-industrialized landscape in Lombardy and Emilia Romagna may feel somewhat monetonous, I managed to enjoy the ride anyway.
Riding these immense flatlands between the Appenines and the Adriatic Sea: it's not exactly about looking for picturesque spectacle, it's about observing subtle changes as the road continues day after day, hour after hour. Just to name a few: villages in Lombardy are more urbanised than those I rode through yesterday in Piemonte, old farmhouses in Emilia Romagna look totally different than the ones in Lombardy, and from Parma to Reggio Emilia I saw a lot more abandoned houses than on the way from Milan to Piacenza.
Two days left to discover more Italian plains from a bike's perspective, I might miss them once in the mountains all over the Balkan!
Riding these immense flatlands between the Appenines and the Adriatic Sea: it's not exactly about looking for picturesque spectacle, it's about observing subtle changes as the road continues day after day, hour after hour. Just to name a few: villages in Lombardy are more urbanised than those I rode through yesterday in Piemonte, old farmhouses in Emilia Romagna look totally different than the ones in Lombardy, and from Parma to Reggio Emilia I saw a lot more abandoned houses than on the way from Milan to Piacenza.
Two days left to discover more Italian plains from a bike's perspective, I might miss them once in the mountains all over the Balkan!