The Great Bike Tour Day 20: Brescia and the last glance back at the Alps

I wake up shortly after 06:00 and still don't know where I will ride and stay today. Last night I was too tired to plan. So, out of the sleeping bag feathers and to the bar, only there is WLAN - the caffe normale costs 1.10€, there is no toilet paper.

Somehow it is clear that I have to go to Lake Garda, although I wanted to avoid it. So be it. Not very motivated, I get on the bike, yesterday's stage was not that great. So I'm even more surprised that the municipality of Brescia apparently knows how to create bike paths: small side roads, partly bumpy field paths, but properly signposted like in Germany.

After a few kilometers, a 70-year-old Italian man on an e-mountain bike starts talking to me. He lives here and doesn't miss the chance to show me the "better than GPS" route. Former road cyclist, I don't know his communication gestures, but I can interpret them immediately, he guides me to the entrance of Brescia. He sent me on a main road that - not self-explanatory - has a separate bike path next to it.

Brescia is very likable, I didn't know it before.

The route afterwards is a bit tedious, it's too warm for me and the VauDe bike capris, which I'm wearing today instead of the long Gonso pants, have a thinner seat padding.

I didn't realize that there are camping sites with about 1000 pitches, a cosmos of its own with its own supermarket, ATM and 3 restaurants, plus several bars. Whether tents are allowed at all, the man at the reception had to ask his boss first, everyone else has motorhomes or rented wooden cabins. The guy with the oversized VW pickup Amarok in the next cabin - Munich license plate - stares at me as if I came from Mars while I'm setting up my tent.

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Camping Bella Italia, 23.60€ with hot shower and toilet paper, WLAN in the restaurant area, reception like at the airport with several counters and security at the entrance