day 25, lake trasimeno

Yesterday evening was spent by the lake looking up at one bloody clear sky full of stars and a very quite pretty lake, part from the frogs all doing their thing, then back to the hostel for a lovely sleep. Woke up early at 8 for breakfast which was lovely, ate outside in the glorious sunshine, then borrowed bikes and proceeded to cycle around the lake, and it’s not  a that small lake. We left at half 9 and didn’t get back till sixish, though there were breaks and a bit of swimming involved, and we weren’t pacing it. It was good to do some very gentle off roading through different vegetations and sunflower fields, a few of them were in semi full bloom which was cool. Ellie and Emily stopped halfway round and got the train back, while me and pat went around the whole thing. We went to some very pretty villages, one of them, Castiglione del lago were sporting the leftovers of a celebration yday, and had flowers and petals and leave arranged into a tapestry thing on the floor going on for ages, which was proper cool. The cycling was pretty easy, once I sorted out me saddle, it was just the heat struggled with, it reached 34 today. Staying another night here and may investigate staying on the island, of if I should stay here and do a cycling day trip to the island. No real plans for tonight, pretty tired, there’s a restaurant just down by the lake, or it’s 6km either way to different restaurants so will prob go down there and chill out enjoying the ambience.