Giro d'Italia 2015. And 2013. And 1967.

In ten days Giro d'Italia - the 97th edition - starts. Are you pepped up for it? Are we? Well... a little bit. To be honest it's not the biggest event in our calendars, but it's fun. We probably won't write much about it here either, but we found a couple of things that we wanted to share with you.

We could start with giving you the link to the official Giro d'Italia home page. Here it is. There you can even count down the seconds until the Giro starts!

First out are here though, are the leaders' jerseys for 2015. Or actually... Let's start with going back to 2013. We thought that it was nice that Paul Smith designed the Giro d'Italia leaders' jerseys in 2013. We like Paul Smith. His clothes, and all other things that he designs, are really expensive but nice. Not that the 2013 jerseys were that different - of course he had to include the sponsors' logos and use the associated colours. And the one very visible difference - the red piping on the pink jersey and the pink piping on the red jersey... Let's just say that it's really hard to combine pink with red and make it look good, and we are not sure that we think that Paul Smith really pulled it off. (And if Paul Smith can't do it...) But we love the patented (kind of) Paul Smith stripes on the left sleeve. However, judge for yourselves!

(We borrowed this picture from Podium Café. Hope that's OK!)

But here are the jerseys for 2015. We think that they look really good! They are designed by the Italian brand Lebole, which we have to admit that we don't know much about.

(We borrowed the picture from Italian Cycling Journal. Hope that's OK!)

And finally, we found this absolutely lovely stamp from 1967.

(We borrowed the picture from Martin Klasch. Hope that's OK!)

There's not much to say about it. It was made by the Italian post for the 50th Giro d'Italia and it's beautiful. Some things went missing as we all started writing e-mails and stopped writing paper letters. There's really no substitute for a letter written on paper, put in an envelope, with a beautiful stamp on it. Not that we miss any "good old times" - just today we had to contact some big companies and the police, and we're really glad we could do it via e-mail and didn't have to write them a letter, put it in an envelope, go out, buy a stamp, put it in the mailbox and then... wait weeks for a reply.

Oh well, we just have to wait for the 100th Giro, don't we? Which should be in 2017!

Ride safe!