Munich→Venice Day 11 to Venice!

Nathan’s stats: 80.62 km, 135m climbing, 4:13 riding time

Country	Distance (km)	Climbing (m)
Germany	109	1038
Austria	110	1529
Italy	439	3783
Total	658	6350

In the morning after breakfast, Nathan’s friend Jure surprised him with a gift of his “Team Pogi” cycling jersey and bib shorts. Pogi is a nickname for Tadej Pogačar, a world famous Slovenian biking star. Jure trains with Pogi’s team which promotes cycling in his country. After a quick change into the new jersey, we were ready for our final day of biking. It was another flat ride, and it felt even hotter than the day before. We left at 8:30 and started with a funny loop around Treviso, back to the hotel. We got it the second time and started riding toward Venice. We accidentally split into two groups pretty quickly, and the bigger group with Nathan ended up doing 8 extra km, mostly on shaded, gravel bike paths, but including a long section with no cycling allowed. Katie’s group had an extra half hour to relax in the shade at the lunch stop.

After lunch, we had a long way on a peninsula to get to a ferry terminal where we could catch a car ferry to our finishing point in Lido, just across the bay from Venice.

It was a short ride from the Lido ferry terminal to our hotel where we dismounted for the last time. It was very hot and humid so some people went swimming in the sea. We took a walk toward the beach. The water is quite warm and the beaches are very crowded, and we were melting, so we opted for cool showers and some gelato instead. We had a group dinner in the hotel, then most everyone took the vaporetto (public water taxi) over to Piazza San Marco on the island of Venice in the cooler evening air. It was uncrowded with a few quartets playing for late night diners.