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Test tour: Fuorn Pass – Venice

It was years ago when I first had the idea of making a long bicycle tour. At that time I rode around 500 km a month by bicycle, however I never did more than 50 km a day and was far from making a long bicycle tour. That's the reason why I decided to make a smaller tour to find out whether I like it or not. So I stood on the Fuorn Pass with a bicycle packed with a lot of equipment in spring 2012. The goal was to reach Venice in Italy. It was the first time in my life to ride more than 50 km a day by bicycle – and I did it 5 days in a row. And I liked it :)

It was an amazing experience to make 450 km in 5 days, including the Rolle Pass with an ascent of 1700 m. I collected a lot of valuable experience on this tour, even if we had a lot of problems because we both didn't speak Italian.

Travelling to Zernez by trainThere was a lot of snow on the Fuorn Pass and the downhill was pretty coldThe most beautiful campground of the whole tour, located next to MeranLago di forte Buso with little waterIt was a lonely road - the Passo Rolle is built for winter tourism...There was a lot of snow again on almost 2000m asl An ascent of 1600m with so much luggage is an exhausting experience.In northern Italy it was absolutely low season - we once had a whole campground for us alone.The beautiful river called piave.We accidentally destroyed a bicycle tube when we tried to pump it at a gas station...Piazza San Marco was pretty wet...The sea was pretty rough - we liked itSunrise at the day of departureOn this journey - for the first time in my life - I reached the sea by bicycle. Let\'s hope that it will be the arctic ocean next time!The travel back to Switzerland was very exhausting, because italian trains are not built to carry bicycles...