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Monday we awoke to cool temps and clear skies ready to welcome the Giro teams to town. Bike teams typically do an easy 2 hour ride on rest days to keep riders’ legs loose and metabolism humming. We anticipated they … Continue reading
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We continued in the van until 2:30 PM, then stopped to unload our bikes for the 4 hour pedal through the Madonie Nature Reserve to the northern coast and Cefalu. We had no idea what to expect and soon found ourselves … Continue reading
(Note to readers: just noticed that I failed to publish this post, written about Day 3. Sorry it’s so wildly out of chronological order!) At 8 o’clock Saturday morning, we loaded our bikes onto the Andiamo van and drove off to … Continue reading
We stayed the night in Caltagirone, a prosperous historic town in the center of Sicily. Its prosperity was established by it’s location midway on the road between Paloma, on the north coast, and Siracusa, on the east coast, and … Continue reading
We loaded up our gear, mounted our bikes and picked our way through morning traffic behind the Andiamo van out of Siracusa. Our destination: Caltagirone, a legendary ceramics town in central Sicily. We climbed 2,000 feet from the coast onto the … Continue reading