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Down in the valley it was a sunny 18 degrees along the river and the Magdalena bridge.
“The bridge in Borgo a Mozzano called "Devil´s Bridge" or "Magdalene´s Bridge" is one of the most impressive bridges in Italy. According to the legend, the bridge was built by St. Julian. Being unable to accomplish the work for the enormous difficultly, the saint asked for the help of the Devil, promising to give him the soul of the first living thing crossing the bridge. Once the bridge had been accomplished, St. Julian threw there a piece of focaccia bread drawing there a dog and thus making fun of the devil.”
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We arrived to the Meeting spot in a remote spot north of San Lorenzo. Here we were treated by our friend Enzo who had invited us to the meet. He was all set up and had saved us a camp spot and brought dinner and wine! We had met him on his way up and our way down from Nord Capp at a camping spot just below the arctic circle.
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We had a bit of a chilly night at about 4 -5 degrees, but we woke to a sunny day for the ride out. There were about 60 bikes and we met another 25 on the way out at a secondary start spot. The ride out was very well organized and the marshalling was amazing.
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The last 10 km on the way home the weather changed as predicted and then it practically torrentially rained all night. Luckily Enzo’s friends Alex, Bruno, and Stefano whom he had met in the Lofoten Islands of Norway had showed up and Alex the “professionista” architect rigged up a shelter for us. This left the “amateurs” standing under the eves of the bathrooms. The rest of the evening we huddled under the tarp drank red wine and grappa, they sang Italian songs, and grilled large pieces of meat on the one burner grill. Making expresso with rain water and coffee cups from the bottom of cans was a first.
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Making expresso with rain water...actually half water half grappa!
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Making coffee cups from cans with a vice grip.
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We are headed southeast to see San Marino, but will stay in Italy in the beach town of Rimini 240 km east on the Adriatic.
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