Today the sun shone so 3/5 of the party set off to Treviso in the mountains. We climbed 1000 m to Sortres, with the last part a 25 % gradient, so we decided to stop for lunch and partook of bean & chorizo stew, escalope of pork and ice cream, washed down with vino blanco de la casa...then some Welsh git suggested we go just a bit further to the next ridge to get the view. STEEP.... 25-30 * gradient for 4 km up to 1350 m. Just as well it was mostly downhill on the way back! But the curious thing was that, at the top of the hill, there were a bunch of stone shacks from which an old woman emerged and sat down near us knitting a pair of what looked like leg warmers. Clearly she knew that the weather could change in an instant at such high altitude because, identifying us as cyclists
sans warmers, so to speak, she tried to sell them to us. Given that the weather was so clement we declined her offer, but later regretted not taking the opportunity to make such a unique and memorable purchase.
