Motorcycle Explorer December 2014 Issue 3 | Page 222

ITALY
A
nother overnighter, grim breakfast, dull
horizon, boring, time filled sailing is best
skimmed over, we eventually get to Ancona on
the Italian mainland in early evening. It’s still
blistering as the ship fetches up at the port,
we’re kept waiting an age as the crew sorts out
who’s getting off (it’s bound for Trieste, a
further day further up the coast), finally we’re
burped out on the quayside and quickly
assemble our thoughts, gloves, boots and
sunglasses, before heading up the coast to
Rimini, our destination for the evening.
After a continental brekky, we’re ready for the
day ahead and hit the road. Vale’s home town is
only