Wednesday we went on a bike tour. We met our group by some car dealership and then followed them to the garage. There were two other families, both were from California. For the most part everyone was in decent shape. I hadn't been on a bike since I was a kid (not counting the cruiser I coasted down a mountain in jamaica on). The ride was a total of 15 miles, but it was all up hill, or at least it felt like it.
Our guides name was Per, like the fruit, he was from sweden. He led us through the hills and gave us little snipits about the things we were seeing. We rode past the house where the filmed the movie "Room with a View.". We kept riding and had lunch at a restaurant that overlooked all of florence. It was beautiful. We ate a ton of pasta and had cappucinos and then hopped back on our bikes to a family run farm/winery.
Per gave us a tour of how they make wine and olive oil and then we got to hike around a bit. The weather was very strange...cold and windy and almost about to storm. It cleared up for the ride home though.
After the ride we all stopped at a fruit stand and each got a slice of "cocomorro" which is watermelon. It was like going to a bar, except instead of serving alcohol they seved watermelon. It was one of my favorite things!
After the bike tour and the cocomorro greg and I finally the saw the David! He was beautiful, and much taller than I expected. Definitely worth the hype. The detail was really impressive.
All in all, I think the bike tour and the watermelon was one of my favorite things that we did on this trip.
If you're interested, the group is called I bike italy. www.ibikeitaly.it, I think. Or google florence by bike.
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