La Spiaggia

No amount of caffeine can jolt you awake like lane splitting Florence rush hour traffic in the pouring rain. A harrowing experience by all measures.

Still in full rain gear, we stopped in San Gimignano for coffee, then headed to Volterra for lunch. At that point Bob’s nerves got the best of him so he parked the bike for the day.

Thomas showed me on his weather app that there may be a small break of sun on the coast so we headed West to get a glimpse of the Mediterranean Sea. He was right! When we reached the seaside we rode past some barriers to get right near the beach and park the bikes. We got scolded by a local resident so neither of us claimed to know a word of Italian. 😆

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