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HippoDrones
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Europe, Day 4. Cannobio (Italy) to Genoa[ish] (Italy) 250miles

I woke up nice and early so I could munch some miles and see the lake and mountains as the sun rose through them. It really is a breathtaking part of the world, I wish I could have taken so many photos but to take them all would fill my memory card over and over and I’d never get any riding done. I travelled round the lake then south to Milan and on route I went up one of the mountains on an almost perfect supermoto road which hopefully I captured on my GoPro. Lord Vader likes these roads; the sweepy winding roads through the mountains, the super twisty hairpins when climbing the mountains and it really loves the coastal/lake roads. It doesn’t like citys tho. Not one bit. The clutch was struggling and the engine was getting hot. Because of this Milan and Monza were covered with a little frustration and I didn’t really get a chance to enjoy the cities. when I got out of them and started heading south again the roads were perfect tightly twisting duel carriageways and the temp went up from a chilly 18’C at 8am to a lovely toasty 28’C as I reached the coast of Genoa. I had to get some fluids in me so stopped at the beach for a small beer, then a bottle of water, removed some clothes as now had way too much on. My face was feeling a bit burnt but wasn’t painfully so and I had been keeping the sun lotion on it. From Genoa I headed west desperately looking for a campsite which there were none but I perseverred and jumped off the coast road to “Ali-Barbar” campsite which looked lovely although seemed only set up for motorhomes and caravans and was told they had no room, I soon found another site tho, which again was only set up for campervans so the ground was rock solid and my tent pegs would not go in. adapt and overcome was the name of the game so I tied the tent to a fence which just about did the job for a night. the heat was wearing me down so I had to stay here. I went for a wander once I was set up to find some food and eventually found a pizza place and had a yummy “peppers-only” pizza… damn my pish accent lol. The saving grace of the campsite was it had WiFi so I was finally able to hook up to the world