COAST OF EAST
Let's keep on turning with the friends of the motoclub! This time a beautiful trasferta in the coast of east of the Liguria and then a crossing of the Appennineses to be able to go down in Val Trebbia up to her splendid chief town, and then through the Penice go up again the Pianura Padana up to house!
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333 km.
Lifted of good morning we load the motorbike and we depart in direction Carmagnola, where we have appointment with the friends of the motoclub; rejoined the group, we quickly depart fidgety to escape from the oppressive heat of these days.
We cross expanses of corn up to reach the Langhes and their chief town Dawn that we easily cross (for once not there is the usual congested traffic!) and we aim to south in direction Cortemilia; the road finally offers us curves and latch for to wake up us a pò from the numbness of the morning. Before the small but attractive center, we divert to the left decidedly and we aim for Acqui Thermal baths that we reach after having crossed a part of the Langhes, for us little wisecrack, but that it fascinates with her hills full of orderly and precise rows.
Acqui we graze only her and we always continue toward east, aiming this time for Ovada that quickly we surpass; we decide now a small variation that will make us lengthen but that it will allow us to see a small part of the ParcoMarcarolo last layer, of the Piedmont that inserts him in the Liguria!
We go up again a pair of slopes of splendid mountains in rents and greens woods until to arrive to a chapel that delimits note the beginning of the park: quiet, coolness and silence, really fantastic! Unfortunately we cannot lose a lot of time and resumptions the motorbikes, we go down to valley in direction of the small but attractive country of Voltage: it doesn't now stay us whether to channel us in the hold valley of the stream Lemme up to the 772 meters of the footstep Mouthpiece.
Now the worse part, in how much sip there the whole smog and the traffic in Genoa! We owe in fact to cross all but her to her we take with philosophy and zigzagando among the scooters, we finally reach Nerves that for us it finally means the Aurelia, the coast and the sea.
Reaches Recco grant us a pò of I rest and the deserved one I have lunch! let's begin to taste us the specialties liguri! Sinned that the time it tightens, we leave the restaurant, the good food and the conditioned air, and we disgust us on the Aurelia, we cross some splendid countries: Saint Margherita from the tall one and then Shave him and thin Chiavari to arrive and Sestri Levante where the road leaves the coast and continues definite in the hinterland.
We arrive and we stop there to the footstep of the Bracco, famous place for the local bikers, and it is understood it from the traffic and from the beautiful road everybody curves! The stop is mandatory and allows us to take back us from the suffered oppressive heat suffered thin to, here we are in the middle of dense woods (unfortunately have found on our walk many rests of set on fire) and of the sea not even the shade!
We depart fortified for making the last line, the descent of the Bracco is enthusiastically for then however to go off himself in a road with many you patch that us the walk, but we are there by now, to Pian of Barca we take to the right for the 5 earths and we stop there in the small suburb of Corvara where, in a beautiful hotel, we will spend the evening and the night.
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355 km.
After an abundant breakfast we reload the motorbikes and we aim in north direction toward Varese Ligure, we have to cross some km of Aurelia done up to Cornice yesterday; we leave the government one and we aim definite in the hinterland, the road is a to follow him of postings velox and controls of the strengths of police, but we are reached and overcome by a biker of the place, that takes us by the hand and it brings us uninjured up to S.Pietro Vara and therefore to Varese: thanks I befriend unknown have saved quite a lot stings!
From Varese we salt to the footstep of the One hundred Crosses and the warm and sunny time it leaves the place to cold winds and fast clouds that they seem to stay himself really on the pass, fast photo and street, we go down in Emilia up to the country of Crocetta where we divert to west toward the mountain Penna that, you don't satisfy, we surround crossing a beautiful but not fast road that it makes us lose a pò of time, but it brings us in a natural park that we discover destination of many Parmigianis; we try to recover the lost time reaching the Tomarlo mountain and from we go down again here in Liguria to Saint Stefano of Aveto.
The mountain is definitely ended, they now wait us for many kilometers of serpentine in how much we have to cross everything the found valley of the river Aveto, they seem to never end but at the end finally Marsaglia! We have arrived in val Trebbia, the road does him more wide and the very best fund but the curves remain and they bring us up to Bobbio!
The stop is mandatory! we are destroyed and hungry, and Bobbio with our patron san Colombano, cannot be that a choice logic; park the motorbikes dedicate us to a small tour of the city and to the food!
In the afternoon fortified but we leave again this time unwillingly direct homeward, but luckily we have to still make the footstep of the Penice, very beautiful and panoramic that brings us in the of Pavia oltrepo that, with a blinding heat, we cross crossing countries emptied by the heatwave as Varzi and Ponte Nizza, joints to Godiasco with a last effort, reach finally Tortona and here we take the highway that will bring us home.
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