News blackout
- Date
- 2005-07-09 20:38 UTC
- Location
- Brescia, Italy
- Mileage
- 198 km
It's weird when on vacation you learn of things much later then usual and often in by chance, today when having dinner and the TV happened to be turned on we saw some rather disturbing imagery from London.
After dinner I've been digging out (with the acting up GPRS connection) as much information on what has happened as possible, just finished reading at 22:20 local time.
We're at Hotel Euro (45N33'13.2'', 10E06'46.1'') in Brescia after riding 198km of SS and SR roads (I'm not still sure what their difference is, we've been referring to them as "B" roads as well out of convenience) from Venice, we're slowly starting to head back north (Taru has to be back on 22.7 and we don't want to repeat my last return from a longer tour [blasting trough Germany [and parts of Austria] in a day, then trough sweden in half a day to catch a ferry).
Just about the only other noteworthy happening was that we happened to be at the Brescia Tangenziale at the same time with local Ducati Club (or something): about 20 bikes, one Yamaha, rest Ducatis, 90% (maybe all, I had to watch the road as well) of the Ducati riders (including passengers) had "Ducati Performance" leather gear, it was certainly an interesting sight, they however took a different direction than us at the next exit.
The weather is and is going to be unstable (we've been riding between two stormfronts for the day, other one of them passed the hotel [with quite spectacular rain & thunder] some 30min ago), how we've managed to stay dry is anyones guess, I hope the luck holds.
Back to the journal...
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