Friday, May 3rd
After breakfast, we collected our bikes, packed our luggage and left it with the hotel for delivery to our hotel in Marina di Pisa for the start of the ride. But first I wanted a few more pictures of the Torre Pendente, and this is an angle I hadn't seen it from before:
It is Friday morning, early May, and still there are crowds and a queue to climb the tower. But still it's possible to get some good angles and some good pictures. The weather is also great, especially given that rain had been forecast earlier in the week:
Then we cycled the 25 km to our hotel, following the river to the sea and then the coast road another 5 km. The hotel is quite nice, and my room is the one with the balcony on the left just above the terrace:
The hotel is by the sea and has one of the largest hotel pools I've ever seen. Unfortunately, it was closed while it was being prepared for the upcoming season:
The hotel also has it's own section of beach, complete with private bathing boxes, beach chairs and umbrellas. It looks like these are also being prepared for the summer!
Both up and down the beach for kilometres there are similar sections of "private" beach, each belonging to a hotel, a restaurant or a club:
In some instances, the sand was even being cleaned and groomed. I guess a lot of people like to spend their holidays beside the sea in Italy!
We then had dinner, including "frito misto di mare" in a nearby trattoria with some of the riders we had just met:
We then had dinner, including "frito misto di mare" in a nearby trattoria with some of the riders we had just met:
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