Génova,mountains and tunnels

As you know yesterday I slept in the mountains,somewhere around 10 km away from Savona,so today I am going to Génova by seaside road and then going north,because I want to visit Milan,so the biggest town I could find somewhere mid way from Savona to Milan,is Bobbio,150km away....but since my gps doesn't have bike roads for Italy(wtf ????) I use the car GPS on avoid: highways,ships,and payment mode,and it doesn't show how much I will go up(from sea lvl) or down, but let me tell you,savona-genova I didn't even notice when I finished, as I said,Italian roads are a dream for cycling.But then he'll started,first 30km from Genova to Bobbio were just going up,all the time,okay, there were some flat parts,but after going upwards for so long,the flat parts don't seem so flat,and my legs were rock solid.When I stopped somewhere on the way to refill my water bottles(public foutain)I could barely walk.WHEN ARE THIS MOUNTAINS END?!?!
I switched on the satélite map mode,and that was a bad idea,because this way I noticed I will not get out of mountains today....yay!(sarcasm?) Yeah yeah,the views are great,and there are rivers,and it's quiet,not many cars pass by,there were dozens of tunnels

(three were 2km long,so I had to stop and wear a jacket)huge&long bridges,but ugh it's still a misery for my quads(well legs in general to be honest).Sun is shining it's best at me,and I am just praying for this to end,even though I am atheist.Suffering continued as I passed small mountain villages(not even villages,just groups of 4-8 houses built in so strange places my brain couldn't really process them)

in Spanish this means weirdo/mad so of course I can not take straight piocture ;-)

and all along the way there are signs of "must own winter tires or chains on board from November to April" wow,thank god these roads are nice now,I can't imagine in winter, and don't be fooled, people who live there don't all have 4x4 all terrain cars/pickups,they have normall city cars....Also plenty of signs for motorbikers,"slow down,you never know what's behind the next turn"

and as sad as this is,the turns and mountain walls are full of crosses with someone's name on them,and a picture, one was very recent, one side of the road was closed and leftovers of bikes laying around, meanwhile meters away there was a wooden board full of family pictures(probably of the driver) and a bedsheets banner saying "You will always be in our hearts" and  it's so sad you know....these roads are really tempting for me to go fast on the bike,so I imagine a motorcycle,oh well natural selection
Anyway,somewhere around 5 I FINALLY arrived at Bobbio,and it turns out it's a town with A LOT of history, some armies passed by,it was a republic for some period, now it's really involved in cinema,and has plenty of monasteries and chapel's (with sings of "someone had a vision here").I am dead tired...really,my legs feel like jelly,and my back& shoulders hurt,and all I can think of is how I can definitely not sleep on the ground today,I will die if I do,and besides moutains-rivers-mosquitoes, not nice place to wild camp without a repellent.ugh,I have to ask,I just have to get up,and force myself to talk to people and ask for a place to sleep(sofa,bed,patio,anything but the wild)
It was hard,it's was very hard to just get up and walk to a bar and ask people sitting, and the bar tenders ,and I did it with every place I found,shops,cafeterias,tourist info,and everyone would say,it's safe here,you can sleep under the bridge that's right outta the city,no wind will bother you there....yea,thanks....that idea I could come up with myself,so I went back to the first place I asked in,some bar, ordered a water and ask to charge my phone,and time went by,somewhere around 8 the waitress told me when they close down(very...VERY late)I could sleep on the couch they have outside, for the clients,that's a great option for me,problem was they weren't going to close till 4 in the morning,everyone from the town ended up coming to the bar to say hello to the owners and ask who I am,and what am I doing,so around 60 people would come&go,ask me in Italian about my trip, say I am crazy or bravez smile,wish best of luck and hug me sometimes...that's so sweet,and when an elderly lady Cuzetta heard I don't have a places to sleep on my trip,she gave me 10€ "incase you need a bed in Milan,or Venecia" awwwww!somewhere around midnight I started falling asleep at the table,and a young girl(2-3 years older than me) and her best friend asked me if I am okay, and offered me a sofa-bed at her place.Analysia,that's her name,was solo nice,her flat for tiny,but so cute,she decorated it herself,and turns out she just finished 2nd year of my studies(engineering in industrial design)She said she is getting up at 5 in the morning tomorrow because she is going to visit her family far away....shame I didn't get to talk to her, but I got her number and hope to stay in touch...so long story short, I slept in a bed,and met dozens of people from Bobbio,what a nice place.
Maybe I will come back someday