Rough day
- Date
- 2005-07-05 20:14 UTC
- Location
- Pianoro (near Bologna), Italy
- Mileage
- 325 km
True enough, around 5am a thunderous rainstorm appeared which again woke Taru up, a good thing since we had been drying some stuff up at the balcony, breakfast was at nine after which we packed our bikes (the place has a garage so the rain didn't bother us then) and set out into the medium-heavy rain.
After getting truly soaked (despite the rain gear: as it ages it becomes more water resistant and less water proof, not that it's exactly a dry suit [as in scuba diving] to begin with), and noticing that unlike in Finland the summer rain is not warm, we stopped to get warmer clothes underneath and decided to bite the bullet and take autostrada from here onwards, as we wouldn't we enjoying any scenery in any case. True enough soon after hitting the autostrada the sky cleared some time before we got out of the valley and sun started shining, we continued onwards and at one gas station took off the warmer underclothes but kept rain gear still on (we didn't want to put them into the same bag with all the dry clothes we had), keeping the rain gear on proved to be mistake in a later phase of this particular adventure...
We took the exit for Bologna (Rovereto [near Verona] - Bologna 10.50EUR/bike) and started looking for hotel with reasonable cost/quality ratio, this proved to be more difficult than imagined and hitting the city at 5pm rush hour didn't help, numerous difficulties and 3 hours later we ended up to Hotel Bellevue (44N23'16.3'', 11E20'17.4'': spacious double room 70EUR) utterly exhausted.
Right next to the hotel is a pizzeria (which based on menu offers also other kinds food) and a ristorante (which we didn't check out yet), the pizzas are great and not too expensive either (generally <=5EUR, one 6EUR). Tomorrow morning we'll call the Ducati factory and book a time for a visit.
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