20100601 – Senigallia to Jesi

After a sparse breakfast buffet (lots of carbs and no protein) I left the hotel at 8:30 with Tom Leever. We cycled through town with reasonable commuter traffic. Then we reached the countryside. There was some light industry beside the road, but we eventually were riding through farm land.

Our first stop was in the town of Corinaldo. Tom and I got off of our bicycles and walked through the town gates up a steep road into the main part of this very old fortified town. We wandered around the streets for a while and stopped at an outdoor cafe where we met some other people in our group. While we took a break, I drank a good, authentic Italian cappuccino.

 

Leaving Corinaldo, we retraced our route down the hill, across the valley and up a moderate hill to Ostra. This is another fortified town. I rode my bicycle up the main, narrow cobblestoned street to the top where there is a main town square that presents the old town hall. I looked around briefly and then took off down the hill where I had left Tom. He had continued on already, so I took off with Rod and Peter in my wake.

I reached Morro d’Alba just before noon. Several people from our group had taken a short cut and had reached our suggested lunch restaurant. They were able to get some cold cuts and cheese before opening time. They left while I stayed with a few others and ordered pasta. I had gnocchi with duck sauce. Others had an assortment of very interesting and very good pasta dishes. I tried to reach Ann on here cell phone to ask her to meet us there, but her phone had run out of juice.

From Morro, I road on mostly with Tom until we got to our hotel in Jesi. Our room is Spartan, but clean and functional. Wifi is free and reachable from out room.

Here is a link to today's route.

After cleaning up, Ann and I took a walk in the old part of town. We stopped for some really tasty gelato. I got tired of walking a went back to the hotel.

At Happy Hour, we talked about our non-cycling hobbies. Then we went to dinner. Nine of us ate at the Gato Moto (Crazy Cat). It’s a pizzeria but it also serves other food (this is typical in Italy). Ann and I shared a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and olives. We also split a thin-crust pizza with spinach and cherry tomatoes.

It’s now after 10:00 and we are ready to go to bed.