Rides
Garda at First Light
The eastern shore before the traffic wakes, when the lake is a sheet and the road belongs to whoever got up.
Retreats
Six days based in one house above Garda: riding in the mornings, the ateliers and the vineyards in the afternoons, the same twelve people throughout.
The retreat is the club at full strength: one house, one small group, six days, and enough time for the riding to stop being the point.
Mornings are on the bike — Garda, Lessinia, Valpolicella, Monte Baldo for those who want it. Afternoons are the other things: the ateliers, a cellar, an archive, a swim, a long lunch, a nap. Evenings are one table.
A sequence, not a schedule. Times are set once dates are fixed.
Rides
The eastern shore before the traffic wakes, when the lake is a sheet and the road belongs to whoever got up.
Rides
Up out of the vineyards onto the plateau, where the walls are dry-stone, the sky is enormous, and almost nobody goes.
Atelier access
A morning in a working Verona workshop, watching a frame be made and asking the questions you have always wanted to ask.