We rode on a track overtaken by the bush, pretty gnarly stuff

I think that's a Nuraghe, but we didn't go near to check

The vegetation has a lot more desert character

Bush tracking

April 19, 2024 in Italy ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

The roads out of Porto Torres got empty pretty soon. The change in the vegetation is stark, suddenly all desert plants and cactuses around. And they're big!

After a bit, we decided to do a bit of bush tracking - I guess the bike equivalent of bush whacking. The track got so close in at times, that we had to get off and just push through the branches. It pleased him so much that he got off the bike at the end to give me a hug. Weird the kind of things that pleases our kids.

The point of it was to check out a nuraghe marked on the map. It turned out to be too far from the track, so we moved on for now.Read more