Apr 12, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
Yes, I know it is not a good time, both personal and general. We started from this sea and these wild beaches and then got lost in the beautiful pine forest behind it, not yet scented with summer spirits but with its peculiar light. Crossed the fine vineyards of...
Apr 12, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
It was a long time since I did a tour like this, with all the features that I like the most: history and culture, abandoned places, paths to explore and never rode, arduous descents and climbs with impossible slopes. A stop in a small characteristic restaurant in the...
Feb 1, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
With the end of the school, the illegal bike races through the city streets began. The route, naturally open to traffic, started from Corrado’s house and then down towards the prison slide that led to the road below, along a straight downhill stretch and then at...
Jan 12, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
Little Jerusalem in Tuscany. “If you can’t go to Jerusalem, Jerusalem will come to you!” This is in short what Pope Leo X established with his bull in 1516. San Vivaldo, already a refuge for the hermits and a sacred place for some time, was handed...
Jan 12, 2022 | The Bearded Argonaut
Small collection of thoughts scattered on some of my trips with my faithful bicycle in my native country: Tuscany. From San Giuliano Terme, in the province of Pisa, to Lucca, I take a road below the mountain. For “below the mountain” in these parts we...
