Munich→Venice Day 10 to Treviso

Nathan’s stats: 54.17 km, 196m climbing, 2:43 riding time

Our second-to-last riding day was pretty much all flat, and hot. It was on a bike route that was partly bike path, partly roads. We had gravel sections including one with a challenging tunnel with a steep incline at the end that caused Greg and Katie to have slow speed crashes. Post-crash celebratory high-five is shown in the photo. Along the way we saw a farmer irrigating his crops and lots of interesting old and new houses.

Lunch was in a small park, nicely shaded but the best feature was a fountain where we could soak our heads and refill our bottles. We found that swimming was not allowed at the lake we planned to detour to, so we took a shorter route to Treviso, arriving relatively early in the afternon.

After showers we headed out with Geoff and Betty to see the famous Fontana Della Tette. We walked through narrow streets, and found it, tucked away in a narrow little alcove. We drank from the fountain and took photos. It’s a modern replica from 1989 of the original 1559 fountain from which flowed free red wine from one breast and white from the other for three days each year after the election of the new mayor, until the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797.

We all realized we’d been in Italy for quite a while without having any pizza. Also by this time Nathan had hit a modern day record of something like 4 or 5 days without a single beer. Google sent us along an intricate route to a pizzeria that was open at that hour and we had some delicious veggie slices with cold beer.

We headed back to the hotel and relaxed a bit before dinner. The whole group ate across the street in a decent restaurant. After dinner, Nathan’s Slovenian friend, Jure, met us. He and his family drove all the way from Koper and spent a night in our hotel so we could meet up. He brought some amazing Slovenian IPA and a beautiful mug as a present. He’s getting back into unicycle racing and Nathan made him really happy by offering to send him a spare Schlumpf 2-speed unicycle hub so he can race faster.