Bicycles Are Back

We hopped on a train and left the hills of Umbria and Tuscany behind.
After a day on the rails and three changes of trains we're now on the Po
river plain in Modena. In at least one way this area is vastly different
from where we've been since arriving in Spain. In Spain and Southern
Italy motorscooters were everywhere. Outside the train stations it was
motorscooters. Around the city squares it was motorscooters. Everybody
from kids to elderly ladies in dresses and heels rode them.

Now that we are North of the Apennines the bicycles are back.

While switching trains in Bologna we saw covered bike parking full of
bicycles. I put the tandem back together outside of indoor locked bicycle
parking. Standing by a square in Modena, while Stacey gathered
information at the Tourist office, I easily saw more people riding
bicycles than I have in the past four months. Like north of the Alps
everybody was doing it from kids to elderly ladies in dresses and heels.

It's good to be back where bicycles are an accepted and well used part of
the transportation equation.