Day 15

Toughest leg so far on this trip. The 200 m ascent from Ascea Marina to Ascea right at the start had more than 20% grade in some places!

Ascea - Sapri

63.7 km
860 m
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Day 14

Another very scenic trip along the coast with plenty of hills.

Agropoli - Castellabate - Ascea

48.9 km
490 m
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Day 13

In stark contrast to yesterday, a very boring leg today, all along the Golfo di Salerno. Super straight and flat.

Salerno - Agropoli

45.5 km
60 m
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A #caturday special showing some of the lovely kitties I've met so far on this trip. #biketouring #nerdiontour #AllCatsAreBeautiful

@ascentale @PamelaSchure @bikenite #BikeNite #BikeNite25April2025 #A7 This reminds: We enjoyed meeting Bike Tennessee folks at Sea Otter Classic. Seems they’ve come up with a great tourism initiative for their state, biketn.com.

Here in Monterey County, California helping visitors who bike was one of our first projects, beginning in 2009, hence remains an alternate URL — https://tipsfortourists.com — aka bikemonterey.org. Helping tourists/visitors is mentioned in this 10th anniversary post. https://bikemonterey.org/may-1-10th-anniversary-of-the-bicycling-monterey-site-and-projects.html

In our Bicycle Maps section https://bikemonterey.org/tips-for-tourists/once-you-start, we include links not only to Monterey County’s bilingual (Spanish-English) bike map https://bikemonterey.org/bicycle-map-for-monterey-county.html, but also to some other California bike maps. For more, we encourage checking with other California Bicycle Coalition aka #CalBike Local Partners: https://www.calbike.org/about_us/who_we_are/local_partners/

Day 12

Big leg today following the beautiful Amalfi coast. A bit much traffic, as it's a super touristy area, but a fantastic experience nonetheless in perfect weather.

Sorrento - Salerno

58.5 km
800 m
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Day 11

After visiting the ruins in Pompeii, it started raining. I waited 2 hours for the rain to stop, then just started cycling. I, of course, got completely soaked...

Pompei - Sorrento

26.1 km
210 m
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Today I visited the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. One unexpected feature was an exhibition of photographs and videos from Pink Floyd's concert "Live in Pompeii" which was recorded in the ancient amphitheater.

Day 10

On the way I stopped in Ercolano to visit the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Highly recommended! Smaller than Pompeii but with some fantastic preserved features like multi-story houses and even wooden artefacts!

Napoli - Pompei

28.5 km
170 m
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I'm a couple of days behind again on my documentation. I spent two nights in Napoli. Definitely not my favourite city. Mostly makes a very dirty, loud and crowded impression. Traffic is absolutely awful. One place I want to highlight in particular is Parco di Villa Floridiana. A beautiful forest-like park with a native cat colony, and great views. An amazing oasis in the bustle of the city.

Here's another picture dump from my four days in Cagliari. Today I'm taking the night ferry to Napoli, marking the end of this Sardinia trip. I shall be back!