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BikeAbout Log

At 6:00 PM May 27, 1998
Sunrise (local): 5:48 a.m. Sunset (local): 8:55 p.m.	Weather 77°F
Traveled Since Last Dispatch 124 mi / 199 km Cumulative Total 5262 mi / 8474 km	Lat: 44° 24' 19" N Lon: 8° 56' 43" E Elev: 66 ft / 20 m

Fast Facts

Where We Are: Genova, also called Genoa
Where We're Staying: Albergo Barone
Places We Visited: Lucca, Pietrasanta, La Spezia, Cinque Terre
Featured Site: Cinque Terre
Person of the Day: Joy Marino
What We Ate:: Food of the Day: risotto; Breakfast: none; Lunch: ham-and-cheese sandwiches, olives, fruit, cookies and juice; Dinner: salad, fettucini with pesto, filet of fish, seafood risotto; Olive count: 2167
Word of the Day: "Dai, dai!" literally means "Give, give!" in Italian. Like "alle-alle," this particular phrase is often used at bike races to urge on participants, much the way an English-speaker would yell "go, go!" Often when we are biking up hills, people shout out "Dai, dai!" to give us encouragement. Of course, it could be that they can see the agony on our faces and, not wanting to witness our suffering, are actually using their limited grasp of English to tell us to hurry up and "die, die", but we're pretty sure it's the former and not the latter).
Tech Fact of the Day: the Gulf of Poets is the unofficial name of the Gulf of La Spezia: Flat Count (Cumulative): 34; Broken Spoke Count (Cumulative): 32


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