Piedmont into Liguria was the exact opposite of the previous day’s pancake-flat jaunt across the Italian plain.
The Autoroute Azzura, through the Appenine mountains and Genoa, presented us with a hair-raising few hours of tunnels and vertiginous viaducts. Impatient truckers, who objected to our top speed of 45 mph (70 kph), added an extra frisson of fear to what was already a white-knuckle ride. I should explain that, besides being our top speed, 45 mph was also the velocity known in those parts as The Speed Limit.
‘Outraged of Orvietto’ even made me jump out of my seat by hooting his air horns at our audacity. Imagine! Observing the law!
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