The Alpe Adria cycle path, Italy

The Alpe-Adria trail is a transnational journey of about 700km in length as it runs through 3 countries -Austria, Italy and Slovenia. The route starts from the foot of the majestic Grossglockner, at nearly 4000m altitude it is the highest mountain in Austria, to the azure blue sea of the Adriatic coast.

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I just crossed the border into Italy and I’m following the river fetcher which is a river valley that’s flowing down towards the sea and I’ll follow it the whole way down the valley but what’s brilliant about this way today is these are the mountains that I’m coming through though then this valley but where I’m actually cycling is not on the road this is what I’m cycling on and it’s an old railway line and they just converted it into a cycle path and there’s no traffic on here whatsoever the roads are by the river but I’m on the old railway and it goes for about 120 kilometres absolutely amazing and the scenery is stunning to me train whoo chuka chuka true to the true hola hello and this is the view along the path absolutely amazing the rivets here are beautiful then you have the mountain the main values that I’m following with the railway line is probably about two kilometers back down here the great thing about this is it goes straight down the valley towards the sea and then you can just take roads off to the left and right into beautiful villages that go up into the mountains and look at this for a view well and the river coming out is amazing and it just flows down the valley back to where I was before all of these are dead ends there’s no way across the mountains on a bike you can hike across the dark place and I just cycle up have a look back down during the railway track and carry on an amazing amazing trip I need to be is beautiful it really is this part of the valley is amazing and at the end of the railway section because I’m down at the bottom of the valley now and because it’s a lot wider the railway or the new railway is the old railway and I have the railway cuts and finishes and on the road there’s still a total package of the valley though which kind of takes you on the fire road while the main road and it powers for Bologna which is a walled city title business obviously this is the new part now Emily bungalows but the mountain valley of the pants of that let’s go find a nice bit here we are this is the best night of it Allah of the Johnny ray was a civil ruler there hello very beautiful and everyone’s just having a coffee should take a bite join the minute hello but this is the weekend on this trail there are 100 are a lot of cycle and sprayer cleanser here sobbing : and then this is one of the ward entrances hello I missed it and outside but those are the mountains they came from and here’s the walled city I’m going to go get a coffee but again if you come to Italy and you’re crossing from Slovenia this is an amazing way to do it there’s no traffic and it’s beautiful and there’s lots of little places to stop a long way like was early this is what you go through this is the mountain you