Our first real day of riding would see us on ferries from Lido to Chioggia, where we’d start riding in earnest. The ride was mostly along levee paths, and ended at a charming agriturismo near Rovigo.
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The tour group wasn’t meeting until the afternoon, so we had time to pop into Venice again in the morning, then joined up with the tour group to get fitted in the afternoon. As a group we did a loop around the island of Lido, ending with apertivi at sunset.
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We arrived in Venice the day before the tour, went out to the hotel on Lido, and then spent the evening wandering in Venice proper. The flooding in Piazza San Marco was dramatic and a bit jarring.
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We learned late in 2017 that a friend of ours was organizing a commercial bike tour in Italy on behalf of the Cyclists for Cultural Exchange. Well, you had us at “bike tour in Italy,” but we also had enjoyed CCE’s Strawberry Fields Forever ride a number of times, and our good friends Nathan and Grace were already signed up for the trip. And once we signed up, almost all of our bike touring buddies joined in.
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