2024 Benelux & France Adventure

 Greetings, this year's adventure will start in Amsterdam then cycling down 

through Holland, Eastern Belgium, Luxembourg, and through northeast France 

down to Lyon for our return trip.   

Rome and end of an amazing adventure

 We ended up taking two trains, some 14 hours of train travel to get our unboxed bicycles from Taranto in Puglia to Rome.  We arrived in Rome at 11:30 p.m. and ended up riding to our B&B at mid-night with a stop at Trevi Fountain.  The ride was magical at mid-night with very light car traffic and glowing streets.  

This ended our two month trip to Greece and Italy (Puglia).  Our final trip statistics are:

910 Kilometers of riding and 21,100 ft of elevation gain.  

Our Greece Route

Our Itay Route

Unloaded bicycles and our duffel bags stuffed with panniers at train station.  

Local or regional trains that can take bicycles unboxed.  

Bicycles & bags on the train.

Rome at midnight.

Trevi fountain at midnight.

Spanish Steps

Vatican and the crowds!

The line of people trying to get in to Vatican goes around the plaza and out for a few blocks!

Pantheon a masterpiece of 2nd century ancient Italian architecture.  

Coliseum

Packed up and ready to take a plane.

Italy (Puglia) - Gallipoli, Campomarino, & Taranto

The bicycling portion of our trip ended in Taranto From here we will travel by train to Rome for the flight home. Here are the trip statistics:

Total Distance: 900 kms

Total Elevation Gained: 21,086 ft.

Buying fruit for the day. 

On the road to Gallipoli. 

Seaside lunch stop. 

 

Gallipoli in the distance. 

Another room with a view. 

Views of Gallipoli. 

Inside Castello di Gallipoli. 

On the road to Campomarino. 

Flamingos!

Our room in Campomarino. 

I think we arrived too late in the season for the beach party. 

On the way to Taranto on an extremely windy day.  

Taranto

Amazing Mexican food at Kahlibri in Taranto.

Including live music.  

Casetello Aragonese.