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| Fontana Delle Tette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_Delle_Tette |
This morning after breakfast, we dropped our bags in the lobby and went out to explore Treviso on our bike before leaving town. We found the famous Fontana Delle Tette (above), saw the Church of St. Lucy, and took some pictures. While still in Treviso, we heard a pop, followed by quite a bit of racket coming from the back of the bike, and then we were unable to pedal. John discovered that the derailleur shifted the chain right off the cassette and into the spokes causing one of the spokes to break. John immobilized the broken spoke and we were back on our saddles in a few minutes.
We left Treviso on the path by the Sile River, and saw lots of birds in the river. Many of the birds had babies that were so cute. There was some sort of underwater vegetation growing in the river that the birds were diving down to eat for themselves and for sharing with their babies.
We explored a few towns along the way and added some additional km's. We saw more vineyards, corn fields, and orchards today. Farm tractors, and even an occasional combine, were a common sight on the roads today as it has been all week of riding (even in some of the larger towns).
Both Treviso and Mestre were very busy with traffic, but the drivers were pretty considerate of cyclists. Almost everyone cycles here, and there were as many bikes at the grocery as there were cars.
We rode around Mestre for a while and then to our hotel Ai Pini. John removed our seats, pedals, and his GPS from the Deep, affectionately referred to as The Whale (we can't take credit, as some other cyclists called this model the whale on their blog) and we said our goodbye to the bike.
We rode 332 km's in the six days this week as we pedaled from the northern Dolomite Mountains, dipping our toes into Austria on a side trip, and on down to the sea in Venice. We celebrated tonight with some local pizza.
Tomorrow we leave Mestre for Murano, sans Whale, and onto new adventures.
Bike route for today here.
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| Another old gate to the city of Treviso at the port which is now where our hotel is located |
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| Bike sculpture outside Treviso |
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| Outside St. Lucy |
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| Treviso |
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| Riding on Bike path E4 today. |
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| Riding along the Sile River near Treviso Link to video |
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| Sue and John both scored a delicious ice cream bar after lunch in front of the local grocery store |
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| Bike shop with handy bike Vending machine |
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| Vending machine with bike tunes, chain lube, and other bike supplies out in front of the bike shop |
