What a beautiful and busy day it was today. Visited three town halls and especially preparing the repair for the tree bike takes time, and at the same time we covered a beautiful route of about forty kilometers. In half an hour we drove to the center of Trino where we found our tree bike at the town hall in the shade. This is how we started our day after breakfast. With Yka I walk into the town hall and, after some explanation of our project and the giving of a tree and the forest book, we happily receive the details of mayor Daniele Plane. He is on vacation – we will encounter that more often in the coming weeks – and we take a picture by the tree with the lady who kindly speaks to us. We also give her a tree. We bike to the garage that was recommended to us a little past Patrizia’s bar where we found on Saturday that the universal joints have a problem. The garage man is clear: We don’t do bikes here, and yes it has to be replaced. We still think it’s no big deal but at a second garage a little further down the road they say the same thing, and also from Cargo Cycling, who we sent the videos to, we get the same advice: replace in its entirety. Ok, but how? It seems to be specially made so it has to come from the Netherlands, from Cargo Cycling. They will see if they have it in stock, and fortunately they do, and we are lucky again that Vincent and Liesbeth happen to be planning to drive from the Netherlands to us exactly tomorrow. If they can bring it with them, we can schedule Thursday to replace it at a yet-to-be-arranged garage, so that we can go into the Alps on Friday with fresh universal joints. That would be awesome. The young lady at the second garage is absolutely delighted with her little tree, and we hand out little trees at the bar as well. We even get some donations, forty-five euros! It is by now noon when we, Richard, Yka and I, cycle away from Trino towards Chivasso, our final destination for today. The route is beautiful and largely along the water and over a dike through rice fields. These are probably our last rice fields of our trip. The swan flowers bloom beautifully here and the many yellow, red and blue dragonflies accompany us. Unfortunately, the birds are uncomfortable with a passing tree and fly up startled. I understand, it’s also quite strange. So we cycle on to the small town of Verolengo where we ring the bell at the town hall because, like everywhere else, it is closed after noon. A man comes out and we take a picture with him and, of course, give him a tree. There is no one else in the cool town hall and he turns out the details of Mayor Rosanna Giachello. Quite right. It’s about fifteen more kilometers to Chivasso, where we cycle with a warm breeze. We do some shopping at the beginning of town and ride on to the center where, after some deliberation, we are allowed to park the tree bike at the town hall on the service side. That part goes into lockdown in the evening, all right. The man we speak to is named Gianluca and appears to be in charge of all the streets and parks. Tomorrow he will introduce me to the mayor and then to some colleagues. The mayor will be there tomorrow between 8:30 and 9. We agree to be there as well. From the center of Chivasso, we drive to our house in fifteen minutes. There we take care of all our daily chores, have a nice dinner outside and check the best location to repair the tree bike on Thursday. Tomorrow is a non-cycling day and on Wednesday we cycle to Avigliana, sixty kilometers from Chivasso. We’ll see tomorrow which garage is best for repairing our tree bike. Good night.