Hi again! Mary here...we just arrived in Sienna today. We were too exhausted last night to post anything...feeling much bettter today. Our ride to Voltera was AWESOME| The first 32 miles were really easy...we stopped for lunch with just 10K to go...but the problem was...Voltera is on a mountain! It was like going up Page Mill after riding for 30 miles...talk about tough! It was totally worth it though. Voltera is a town inside a fortress...so cool. And our hotel was perfect. We had the best pizza ever! This morning we were off again around 8:30am and on our way to Sienna. The landscape was beautiful...much better than our first day...lots of rolling hills, vinyards and castles in the distance...35 miles in all. We stopped at another town inside a fortress for lunch. We are now hiding out at an Internet point to escape the heat...then we will be off to see beautiful Sienna. Tomorrow is San Quirico dOrcia...yeah, I know...you will have to look it up :)
Not sure we will post pics...internet is SOOOO slow here!
We are living the Viva la Dolce!!
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42 miles the first day! Great start. Really thankful everything is going so well. It finally cooled off here, hope you're experiencing nice weather for your journey too.
ReplyDeleteYay for the biking beauties! I'm so glad you're getting nice scenery and tasty food. A college friend once told me that once you eat gelato in Italy, you can't go back to eating American gelato, since there's no comparison. Is that true? If so, I guess it's a good excuse to eat a lot of gelato while you're there! ;) Have some chocolate hazelnut gelato for me, k? Love & hugs, Jen :)
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