barcis

a beautiful lake town, surrounded by mountains...barcis is slightly north of pordenone and aviano...it's a small town, and doesn't take long to drive through...the reason people go to barcis is to be around the lake...it's a beautiful colour...
we started the afternoon by trying to keep me up to date on my goal of eating gelato every day during the trip...i'm not sure it was real gelato we had, it tasted an awful lot like ice cream...oh well...i tried...
this was the first town in which i saw magazines named after me...woo hoo!! i wanted to add to my collection of things around the world named after me...it's getting to be a bigger collection than i ever expected!

we walked along one edge of the lake, just enjoying the lovely weather and the beautiful scenery...there is a bridge across the lake, it's a VERY narrow bridge...just barely big enough for a single lane...when i stood in the middle i was almost able to touch both sides!! i hope traffice never gets backed up there, it would take foreva to wait for a queue to cross the bridge...
after walking around for a while, we tried to go to a store to get postcards for me...the sign on the door said it would reopen (after the siesta) at 1600, so we waited...we waited until 1615, and still no one was there...so i didn't get any postcards from barcis...gutted!

mandy decided she wanted to drive back by going a way she'd never driven before...up the mountain on the other side of the lake, and down the other side of the mountain...a very very switchbacky road...i was motion sick pretty quickly...i managed to keep my head up for a while, but then i put my head down, and closed my eyes...that made it all much more tolerable, though i missed out on a few great views...argh...i hate that i'm so susceptible to motion sickness...i envy those who don't have the problem...
dinner that night was home made...steaks on the grill!! YUM YUM YUM...after dinner mandy and i pedaled into town for gelato...after the fake gelato earlier in the day, i wanted the real stuff:)