Did the bikes survive the journey? (Tim)

After a nice little breakfast on the train with our new best Belgium friends we hustled for the get off at Bolzano. Despite all our worries the bikes made it in one piece. The rail men had lashed to our racks and surprisingly that Vietnamese stainless steel tubing took it very well without any obvious distortion to the legshield.

After yesterday's dramatic run we were confident and relaxed about the day; so much so that when Scott couldn't find a shop to buy an Italian map from we said "fuck it! We don't need a map anyway" and off we set.