Fritz Italy Tandem Bicycle Tour June/July 2016: Day 6

Our preferred lunch stop in front of a local grocery store where we can get sometching to supplement a sandwich and get some water to fill up our water bottles. We don't always find one at lunch time but we did today.

Rain was forecasted for Belluna for today, and today's route promised climbs, so we intended to leave the hotel early this morning.

However, we discovered last night that the previously published Day 4 of this blog was overwritten by a draft when Sue inadvertently opened a previous draft in the Blogger App for Android. So, we were up late last night, but with good results. We figured out how to get to a cached copy from Google's server and did that successfully from the hotel computer this morning before Google changed the cached copy. We tried to get the cached copy last night on our phones (plus we tried a lot of other things too) but that functionality is not available from the Chrome mobile browser.

We started the 60 km ride about 10:30 this morning and got lucky with the weather. Sunny skies all day and beautiful views made for a great trip from Belluna to Valdobbiadene.

We toured on roads today, since the route lacks dedicated bike paths. For the most part the roads were quiet as they wound up and down the beautiful Italisn countryside (sometimes at greater than 10% grades). The last 15 km section of the route was on a fairly busy road. Drivers were friendly overall, but there was much less stopping for pictures today because of the lack of safe places to stop.

Many of the Dolomite hillsides today were covered with grape vines. We've entered the section of Italy where Prosecco and Asti are produced. We had an excellent glass of Prosecco wine with dinner. Omga Longa, the restaurant we chose, served pasta with sausage and mushrooms. This may be the best pasta we've ever had.

Pictures below and buona notte!

See bike route here.