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Reverts text→datetime change. Uses format:'Y-m-d' (date-only) so the datepicker omits the time component. Strips HH:MM from all Italy demo story dates for consistency with the new date-only format. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vgmzx8VTTTmCskSpQtsLTr
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title, date, location_name, location_country, lat, lng, hero_image, hero_alt, published
| title | date | location_name | location_country | lat | lng | hero_image | hero_alt | published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Val d'Orcia at Dawn | 2025-09-05 | Val d'Orcia | Italy | 43.078 | 11.676 | hero.jpg | Cypress-lined dirt road at first light, Tuscany | true |
We left camp before the heat arrived. At six in the morning the Val d'Orcia belongs entirely to the light — long shadows, pale gold, not a car on the white roads. The kind of silence that has texture.
[snap-gallery images="hero.jpg,photo.jpg" captions="First light on the valley floor,The hills fold endlessly east" alts="Wide valley at dawn with golden light,Rolling green hills under morning sky" /]
We stopped twice before nine. Once for a puncture, once because the view demanded it.
[chapter-break image="hero.jpg" title="The Hour Before Heat" alt="Hazy hillside shimmering in early morning warmth" /]
By ten the temperature had shifted. The colours changed too — softer, more diffuse, the sky turning white at the edges. We dropped into the lower valley and the road surface changed from gravel to packed earth, then back again.
[snap-gallery images="photo.jpg,hero.jpg" captions="The texture of Tuscan gravel — coarser than it looks,The road ahead disappears into the heat" alts="Close-up of pale gravel surface,Road vanishing into bright haze" /]
[pull-quote] The best hours of a cycling day are the ones nobody sees. Four in the morning to ten. Then it belongs to the sun. [/pull-quote]
We made Pienza by noon. It was already thirty degrees and the ice cream queue was six deep.