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The trip from Sydney to Garda ended up being pretty uneventful. Long, but uneventful.

The interesting part was trying to get my boat out of Italian customs at Malpensa. Thank god I had Italian Luca with me, otherwise I’d still be there walking up and down the halls of bureacracy.

Anyway, after 5 hours, copious amounts of paperwork and $1000 EUR (cash only!) we did get the boats out. I didn’t feel particularly clean after all that.

Then it was time to be travelling gypsies, with the two Bladerider boxes stacked on the VW Polo. Thankfully the roofracks held up, and everything made it to Garda without damage…. no thanks to the freight handlers mind you, who ignored the “fragile this way up stickers” and had the boats stacked on each other on their sides. Good work morons.

Anyway. Getting to Garda was well worth it.

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