invited me back to his parents house
to stay the night.
He’d called ahead, so when we final-
ly arrived, his parents had prepared
the most incredible Italian feast and
I ended up staying for 10 days with
them and had the most amazing time.
I’d spend the days trail riding around
the mountains of northern Italy with
Mauro and Andrea, and returning for
a four course meal three times a day
… it’s a hard life … Jana said she was
trying to fatten me up!
As you can imagine it was very hard
to leave.
Whoever said fast food restaurants
were bad clearly has never bumped
into a biker outside of one!
Through the wonders of social me-
dia, I got invited to stay with a Brit-
ish expat and his family living in a
chalet in Switzerland, so I headed
over the Alps and explored the Swiss
TRAVERSE
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