Day 13 - Senigallia to Ancona - Oh The Places You'll Go - 2025

April 23, 2025

Day 13 - Senigallia to Ancona

One of those days to endure

Not much to say about today. A short ride, a long wait and a peaceful sail.

This is the first time we’ve taken an overnight ferry during a bike trip (we did take one from Tallinn to Stockholm in 2008 with the kids to start a trip), and given the cancellation and following radio silence from Jadrolinija, and this being SNAV’s inaugrual service for the season, we were a bit worried about how this was all going to work.

The ferry was scheduled to leave at 19:30 and our booking information said to be there and checked in at 16:30. We also wanted to eat a bigger lunch in Ancona and avoid the ‘ferry food’ and crowds and therefore determined that we needed to be in Ancona by about 13:30.

We made it without difficulty.

The first 12 km’s were a rerun of the last few days, classic beachside riding on pretty much deserted roads and bike paths. After that, from Montemarciano to Ancona things became increasingly built up and industrial. It wasn’t bad riding but it reminded us that we were approaching a bigger city that serves as one of the main Italian ports on the Adriatic.

The last few km’s into Ancona and down to the docks were ‘head down, focus on the narrow shoulder’ riding that aren’t fun, but aren’t horrible either. They just need to be endured and get finished.

The check in and staff at the SNAV passenger terminal were efficient and helpful and we had everything we needed done wrapped up by 13:30. Every thing wrapped up that is except getting onto the boat. That would be another 5 hrs away.

In retrospect we could have taken a longer much more pleasant ride here through the interior hills and still made it to the ferry with plenty of time and we’ll store that knowledge away for next time. On this occasion, our focus was getting booked and physically onto the ferry as this was an essential link for the rest of our tour.

So, to fill our five hours … A bit of a tour around Ancona (which is built into a steep hillside, so our ‘tour’ was limited), a good lunch - burger and beer - very basic - we do do that! (that sounds like a Mowtown chorus but it is grammatically correct) and then onto the boat and a good night’s sleep in our tight but comfortable cabin.

We’ll awake tomorrow morning in Split and start round two of this adventure.

As a final note, it seems my spellchecking is now being ‘crowd sourced’. There’s several of you out there (you know who you are) and it’s appreciated. Keep it up!

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