A pleasant evening near Terracina and an excellent meal of local seafood led to a paddle in the sea and a game of cards at the B&B that some of our party had started to believe did not exist. A hot night (as hot as Malta, cos my brother-in-law Kelvin rang from there during the evening) so the fan in the room was very welcome. Kelvin rang to say that we are booked to appear at a Maltese School with radio and TV a couple of days after we arrive. We are to be dressed in “the sort of gear that crazy English people who ride to Malta wear”!!
A slightly overcast but hot morning greeted us before our leg to Naples, although Bernard was nearly an early casualty when I prematurely undid the knob on the coffee machine and sent scalding water squirting towards his groin!! Patty fixed a front wheel puncture for Tizz, who was most upset as she wanted to be able to say she’d done the trip without having one!!
Then we set off again, with a pleasant following wind, on the SS7 Via Appia to Fondi and then to Itri, the latter of which is very historic but which involved a not insignificant climb to reach it. Weather brighter and hotter, but it is impossible to ignore that this part of Italy is much scruffier than further north, with litter on roadside verges common and plentiful. Back down to the sea for lunch, and to launch George to join us on the next leg to Mondragone.