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Cycling in Tuscany, August 2004 (1) |
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Tuscany, Italy: famous for its Etruscan, Roman and medieval heritage. And for the Renaissance of course! Great cities, great landscape, lovely food, wine and capuccino...but also great for a few weeks of cycling. Even in the hot Italian Summer, if you take enough water with you... |
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Start and finish of our two-week tour: Florence, capital of Italian Renaissance. |
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Florence was pretty impressive already. But our next stop Siena must be one of the best-looking cities in Europe, if not the world! |
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In-between all those nice larger and smaller cities were hills, lots of them. Nice to see from a distance, but not always easy to climb on a bicycle... |
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...but once we reached another terrace, life was very īdolce vitaī again :-) |
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The cycling groupīs homebase, here in Marcialla, but of course moving ahead the next day: much more cycling ahead! |
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