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Music Terms apply. Always read your policy docs. Good morning from the Tuscan-Amelian Apennines which is part of Italy I can't recall ever

coming to before in the Giro we left Pisae last night and drove north and got

as far as Villarillo where today's race starts which is down on the coast near Lido di Camajore where

Tirano Adri Attecan atico starts every single year and then we turned off to the right and started for the

next hour and a half to wind our way up into the apennines as the rain continued to batter down at the end of a very

wet day and a very wet evening in

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