Category: Italy trips
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Tuscan Hill Towns, April 10 – 18, 2019
Three sixty-something guys went cycling for eight days through Italy, more or less Florence to Rome. The trip turned out to be much more of an athletic event than expected, with some of the steepest hills I have ever cycled. Also, I had heard that Tuscany was over-touristed. Could we, on bicycles, discover the […]
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Po River Valley, Italy; Oct 26 – Nov. 3, 2014
On a clear day in downtown Milan you can see the Alps rising in the distance. Thirty miles north of Milan at Malpensa Airport majestic mountains are even closer, they rise as a backdrop. Flying in and out of Malpensa, you can see glaciers in these craggy peaks. Yet much of the […]
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Puglia, Italy, April 18-25, 2012
Puglia is the heel of the boot of Italy. It is relatively flat. Other than the weather, everything on this weeklong trip was great. The weather was mostly cloudly, intermittent rain, windy, daytime highs in the low sixties. But what variety, so many things to see! In one small portion of one region of Italy, I biked […]
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