I could hardly contain my excitement.

The tour de France is fantastic. So organising myself to get a watch the Giro d’Italia was great and I could hardly contain my excitement.

I loitering and did a bit of sightseeing in the town I was staying in just so beautiful.

Then at what I thought was an appropriate time to set to my selected spot, half way up the Montagna Grande di Viggiano about 20kms away.

The ride flat until Viggiano then it rose steeply this is when I met some difficulties, the road was closed and although the let me through official cars and police were starting to hammer up the road so I too the wimps way out and stopped. I was the only person there for a long time but a few more turned up.

The expenitence of watching a grand tour is so spectacular. The cars, the motorbikes, the vans, the support crews and of course the lead riders passing faster than the blink of an eye. Then the peloton legs pumping like pistons in a steam train, even the tailenders, so powerful.  Oh oh oh such a magnificent sight.

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