Mille Miglia 2009 - Underway

The day started as planned with a short drive from the hotel to the start line. Nice quiet Sunday morning with few cars on the road. Perfect!

The first part of the route is a lap around the old tow on Brescia and then onto to Verona via the southern shore of Lake Garda. We travelled no more than 100 yards when we encountered our first problem – Road closed – X#!X!!#~ - no matter our navigating TVR team found an alternative and we continued towards Lake Garda – only to find another road closed there and another diversion. Another few miles further on in open country side we were stopped by yet another road closure due to a cycle race going past. So the first 40 miles of our 1000 mile journey had taken about 3 hours!!! Not a good sign.

We eventually found our way to Verona and went through the city centre which was spectacular – we crossed the river 4 time on our route through.

Lunch was timed to coincide with the Belgium Grand Prix which was good to see the first Ferrari win of the season. Ferrara was another scenic town we went through and the cars attracted a lot of attention as the streets were crowded in the centre.

Then onto Rimini and then out first night stop in San Marino at the Grand Hotel. The underground car park was a bit of a squeeze.

First leg complete