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When a plan comes together.

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I’ve now sorted the routing to get to the Italian MotoGP (Andy’s already bought race day tickets); booked the ferry to France and have found a hotel to stay at in Florence on Saturday before the race and one in Modena to stay at on the Sunday after the race has finished. Coincidentally – Modena is only a few kilo from the Ferrari factory and has a nearly new Enzo Ferrari museum. Well that’s Monday morning taken care of!

The route to Florence (it’s in Italy!)

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I had planned to zoom down through France to one of its Mediterranean resorts i.e. Nice and then tour on to Genoa via Monaco.

What I hadn’t reckoned on was the Alps. Well I had – but for the return journey when we’ll head up to Switzerland. What I’ve subsequently discovered is that the Alps completely encircle North Italy and getting from Nice to Genoa means effectively crossing the Alps or taking the very slow and crowded coast road. A rethink is needed given that we intend to get from St Malo to Florence in three and a bit days of not too onerous riding. (The Alps are in the red border.)

About HTTPS for those who are interested?

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When you see “Secure” and a green padlock plus (HTTPS) next to a sites URL it basically means that all the data that goes between you and the site (and vice versa) is encrypted. So nobody can steal data you’re entering on the site – or that it’s sending you. However if you aren’t entering data or the site isn’t sending you any (or showing personal data about you) it isn’t necessary. And encrypting data does slightly slow sites down.

So, in my site only the LOG IN, CONTACT ME and ADMIN pages are secure pages. Especially as the ‘Chrome’ browser wouldn’t let anyone log in to an unsecured login page. Doh! No need for any of the others to be so though. Let me know if you disagree?

Italy here we come – again.

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After much discussion, well actually not a lot, Andy and I have decided to ride out to the Mugello Circuit (near Florence) to watch the Italian MotoGP in early June next year. We’re thinking of going from St-Malo down towards Cannes then round the coast past Monaco and Genoa. The return trip will go into the Alps and through Switzerland then back towards the ‘Chunnel’. Just got to do the route planning now!