Pietro Orlandini, a rowdy Italian, in China in 1934 and his bike ride in the Takla-Makan Posted on April 17, 2016 6:48 pm by griell Comment Orlandini, as seen yesterday, was a rowdy Italian, who was sipping his own urine “like a vermut” (his words) when fleeing from a prisoner camp in Abisinia to Kenya. 📂This entry was posted in 1935 📎and tagged desert bike ride desert by bike Orlandini Taklamakan by bike Xinjiang