On her way back to Austria she stopped for a day in Trieste, in northeast Italy, hoping to meet with people at Spin , the Internet service provider in Italy that is hosting several BikeAbout pages . Luck is indeed often on bikers' sides, for not everybody at Spin was on vacation. Over Italian coffee-dreams , she learned that Franco , Antonio's brother, is the head of a secondary school with about 400 pupils in Bronte, Sicily. Though not yet on-line, Antonio thought that Franco's school would probably be very interested in being a part of the BikeAbout project. That was five months ago - and tomorrow we really will be there, following up on what we started.
Bikes link people.
Off the northern coast of Sicily stretches a volcanic archipelago of 7 islands known as the Lipari Islands. To help Odysseus get home to Ithaca, Aeolus captures all of the unfavorable winds in a bag that he gives to Odysseus. Unfortunately, some of Odysseus' greedy men, thinking that the bag is full of gold, open the bag. Within sight of the shores of their home, the men watch in horror as all the released winds blow the ships all the way back to the Aeolian Islands. Aeolus, fearing that Odysseus and his men are cursed, refuses to repeat his earlier gesture, leaving the warriors to embark on the years of adventure recounted in the tale.