We woke up at 7:30 and as directed by our hosts, we ate in the hotel restaurant. It seems that they have some type of arrangement for such things for their guests. Fantastic chocolate croissants. It is hard to imagine, that just a week ago, we were bailing water out of our tent and now we are getting first class treatment. After loading our bikes, we knocked on our hosts door and they came down to the garage and then outside to take many photos prior to departure. We wished we could have stayed longer, but we must move on, especially when the skies are kind. We are proud to have been Georgias first Servas guests.
The ride today is throught the hill towns in Le Marche. This is what we came for. Windy roads through fields of of olive, apple, plum trees and grapevines. Our goal is the jewel of Umbria...Urbino. It is about 5:30 when we arrive in the outskirts. We see in our guide book that there is a campground outside of Urbino...but will it be open? We took a chance, after a hard climb, it was hard to give up what we had gained. We screamed down a steep descent, only to find ourselves having to climb up the steepest part of our trip so far...and were so glad to see the doors to the campground open! We camped here for two nights, so that we could spend a full day in Urbino. We had showers on and off, but no worres with our new rainproof tent. We made soup, with tuna and cheese sandwiches, took hot showers and hung some clothing out to dry. However, it rained during the night and the clothes would have to go into plastic bags for our next leg of the trip.
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