🐄 Medieval Village and Cattle Drive 🇮🇹

4:51 / 54 miles / 3780 ft. Gravellona Toce, Italy. A normal breakfast in our Airbnb of yogurt, banana, smoothie, granola, and coffee. We were staying about two blocks away from a historical medieval village, so we explored that within the first couple of minutes of our morning ride. As we rode on, we approached a road that was blocked by a man and his car. He was holding a long pointy stick, and just watched us as we rode around him and down the road we needed to take. We continue down the Long narrow road toward the sunrise and saw some strange commotion ahead. Lisa and I both realized it was a large herd of cattle being driven down the road towards us. with nowhere to escape, we had to make a quick U-turn and ride back down the road to let the cattle pass. It was definitely quite a site, and a bit of a scare! Beautiful riding today in the lower mountains and getting spectacular views of the valleys below. We stopped for lunch at a cute little place of the mountains, and the owner made us some various things to share, including a small lasagna. After lunch, we went to a quite touristic area, Lago d'Orta, Italy. We had a cappuccino, wrote some postcards, and enjoyed looking out over the lake at the San Giulio island. In the late afternoon we arrived at our Airbnb, which was a cute apartment with a loft and an Alpine feeling to it. After cleaning up, we went out for pizza again, we just couldn’t resist!Baca selengkapnya