Samstag, 22. August 2009

From Bovec to Cividale (Aug. 21)

Today's hard facts:
Distance: 64.4 km
Avg speed: 16.2 km/h
Trip time: 3:59 hr (total: 7 hr)
Altitude: 135 m (Cividale)
Route: Bovec - Soca valley to Kobarid - Natisone valley to Cividale

Soca Rafting facts:
Distance: 8 km
From: Srpenica
To: Trnovo

We are now past the Alps, and today's trip led us from a high mountain region at the upper Soca river to the widening Natisone valley, with mountains turning into hills and vineyards.

The rest of today's report was written by Andrea. Thanks! I really was not in the mood, after the quest for a place to stay:

Today we had an adventureous day. At 8:30 we went for breakfast: first course was a coffee and a cheese cake, second course was a radler beer with the idea to get some braveness for the following rafting tour at the Soča river. We started at 10 and it was very, let's say nice, for a first trip on wild water. It was fun, we had some half wild parts in between and even went for a swim. In spring there should be four times more water in the river - maybe we should repeat the rafting then :-)

We came back to the base at 12:45, went to our apartment to get our stuff and went with the bikes a few kilometers closer towards the sea. On our way we stopped for an unique kind of trout, which only lives in the Soca river and you really have to eat it, if you are a tourist like we are.

The end of our glorious day was planned in Cividale del Friuli, a quite famous medieval town in Italy. Well, exactly today is a medieval fest in town, therefore the search for an affordable place to stay turned out to be a hard challenge. We went around and through the city, I asked at some places for a room and they all were fully booked except one 3star hotel, where the staff seemed to be unfriendly and it was too expensive in our opinion. After full 3 hours of desperate searching and a rage attack of mine caused by my tremendous sleepyness and exhaustment, we are staying at this 3star hotel in the city center tonight.

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