With Oreste, my host for the night. What an amazing and lovely person.

Day 3 began with knee pain in my left knee and a bad nose bleed! Physically exhausted from the previous two days, it was immediately clear that the planned 180 km ride to Chiavenna would not happen. After a quick recalculation, I was back on track. I decided to cut out Vaduz and go directly from Chur to Bregenz. Although I decided to cut today’s trip to 107 km and go to Lecco at Lake Como, the two days of short trips planned for resting in the middle would not happen.

Quick break by the side of the road. It was about 0 degrees Celsius but I still needed to cool down!

After 107 km and 5 hours of biking, I arrived in Lecco. And again the challenge to find a place to stay for bitcoin began.

I’ll spare you the details of bouncing around between 6 different hotels starting with Hotel Moderna which despite their name wasn’t as ‘Moderna’ as one would be led to believe. I thought that I could convince them that even for holding true to their name, they should accept bitcoin but unfortunately they were closed so my challenging arguments had to be spared. I will however, tell you about the last hotel that I tried. It is my home for the night and it is called Casa al lago owned and operated by one of the nicest people I have met, Oreste. He didn’t need much convincing but rather was happy to help in any way he could. In fact, he even gave me his last room which was already booked. He later told me that when the guests arrived, he referred them to a friend’s hotel which they luckily accepted.

Oreste is a friendly, humble and hospitable guy with a lot of love for life and people. He did not know much about bitcoin but wanted to help my cause so we agreed that I would donate the cost of the night’s stay (0.015 btc) for a good cause within the community. Any ideas where to give it to?

Having a few glasses of wine with Oreste who told me about his own wonderful travelling experiences.

So the score at the moment is 2 for bitcoin and 1 for Euro.

I want to take this opportunity to also thank the many supporters who have sent me a lot of positive vibes and words of encouragement. I also want to especially thank the donors who have donated some bitcoin so far to support my stays and meals.

If you like what I am doing, feel free to share this post and spread the word about my experiences on Tour de Satoshi. If you would like to donate, here’s my btc (segwit) wallet address:

bc1q87jy2c28snel5tj3c5q94fdfuy9xwhl0ljlysn

And my btc (legacy) wallet address:

1P3UwoDLhqJZbkYiZuKQZrmZvbB2GssLB

Until tomorrow, peace.

Vitus