XXI. Finally at a lake

Captain’s Log: Friday, 4 August

Distance: Radicofani – Lago di Bolsena / Montefiascone, 63km

As I have written yesterday already, we slept in some sort of pilgrim’s hostel, or hiker’s hostel, so there have been some other groups of people in our dorm room. They all left between 5 and 6 in the morning, which brought me to get up eaelier as well, so that we lwft the hostel at incredible 7am in the morning. Since we were in the hills, we did not even see the sun yet, and qhile driving down the hill, it actually has been really cold.

The view down into the valley has been fantastic again.

Due the colder temperatures we got to Bolsena quite early, around half past 10, I think. Well, I got there around that time. Already from the top of another hill, I was able to see the Lago die Bolsena, a quite big lake, which has been our daily goal to reach. 

After getting down, I even managed to see it from the close in the town, where we had an Ice Cream break.

Even though we sat there for a longer time, it has been still quite early, so we decided to drive a bit further south to a camping ground at the other side of the lake. We might just should have looked up how to reach that place, because I do not think that such a sandy road could be good for our poor bicycles…

But, as always, the trip there was worth it. For once, I did not have to push Connen-Neute up a hill in the midday and afternoon heat, but I was able to relax and chill at the lake. And I have to say, this has been necessary already. And luckily for us, on the way down to Rome there are two more lakes on our route, so if we manage it well, we will have a lake close by at the next two nights as well!

The only unfortunate thing is that the camping ground lies a bit away from everything, so no Ice Cream here…