Not for the first time, a whole adventure started with a glimpse of an impossibly beautiful stretch of road and the solemn declaration “I’m gonna ride that”. The road in this case was a sinuous stretch of gravel, hewn high into the Ligurian Sea Alps on the Italian side as close as it’s possible to get to the border with France. Interested? Check out the highlights video and click on through to the separate posts to find out how it all went.