A jewel between mountains, a colourful city crossed by a river. so much life, I loved Ljubljana from the very instant my wheels touched its streets.

Never fully trust on your GPS, watch sometimes the map on your phone, find other ways and never trust blindly on Garmin specially. Anyway, despite being lost in the mountains, I enjoyed the gravel experience, the insane gradients on the ascents, the mosquitos and bees and the two crazy descents. Here is a small audio taste of how it sounds the loneliness os the slovenian mountains. By the way, now I know where Roglic and Pogaçar train. 

I arrived a bit late to Trieste without finding a place to sleep, I rode 200 k with my bike and at that point I was exhausted but then I realised I had to bike at least 10 kms more in order to find a good place to put my tent, out of the big city. The only problem was that those 10 kms had 20% gradient in average. after all the suffering I arrived in a camping place and I recorded the sounds of what happened around my tent. 

Half an hour by ferry from Venice, I found the beautiful island of Burano, a small place full of artisans and colourful houses. I forgot this episode but it should be right before Trieste. This is how this island sounds

After a hell of a ride of 200 kilometres under 36 degrees celsius I finally arrived and got the opportunity to see the Adriatic sea from the mountains, a beautiful city that for some reason reminded me Mar del plata in Argentina. This is how this beautiful city sounds.

As I was amazed by the vibrant Venice, I did some recordings, this one is on San Marco Square. 

One of the reasons why I came to Venice, was Marco Polo and his journeys, I am a traveller mainly because of my parents and because of the lecture, The Voyages of Marco Polothe voyages of Marco Polo was my compas book. this is the sound of the streets and the channel in front of his house in Venice. The Voyages of Marco PoloThe Voyages of Marco Polo

My journey took me to one of my dreamed cities, Venice was the jewel I always wanted to visit, that is why I have more than one recording of its streets. This is the first one, and I did it right in front of the station, watching the traffic in the channels, the white constructions, and the fantastic energy this small city have. 

An small village going down from the Italian Alps

So many tunnels and a dangerous descent before arriving in Trento, a beautiful city in the Trentino region, the north of Italy is just amazing.