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17-08.-2006, 03:43 AM
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Florence to Rome on touring bikes in 4 days
Hi
My friend and I used google earth to map out a bike trip from Florence to Rome. I will have more details later about the route, where we stayed, and who we rented bikes from but I thought I'd post our little movie to get you motivated (or discouraged).  http://www.solidmedia.com/italy_small.wmv enjoy (it's about 25 minutes long) -Laura |
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17-08.-2006, 05:32 AM
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Re: Florence to Rome on touring bikes in 4 days
We rented bikes from:
http://www.randotrek.com/ It was about 150 euros each for 6 days of rental. They were great. They met us outside of Termini station in Rome with the bikes and paniers and kept our extra baggage until the end of the trip. We then took a train to Florence (don't forget to pay the extra bike transport fee of 3 euros each or get an 8 euros ticket plus the 3 euro transfer fee as we did). They retrieved the bikes in Anguillara Sabazia and made sure we got on the right train back Rome. You could try riding all to way into Rome but they advised against it due to high traffic. This is where we booked rooms http://www.hostelworld.com/ in advance for each of the nights listed below. It's better to book in advance because you'll be tired and you don't want to have to deal with finding lodging. Also, print out a couple of maps of each city, far away and close up to your lodging so you can find it when you roll into town. All roads lead to Rome (heh) so a larger map of Italy wasn't really needed. Just a list of the sequential towns. I would recommend trying to do this route in 6 or 7 days with a day off in the middle instead of the 4 days staight which left us riding 5-7 hours a day. There are alot of hills and paniers aren't light. Rome - Friday - July 14th - Florence - Saturday - July 15th Florence - Sunday - July 16th Florence - Monday - July 17th Siena - Tuesday - July 18th Torre Alfina - Wednesday - July 19th Viterbo - Thursday - July 20th Rome - Friday - July 21st Rome - Saturday - July 22nd Here's our actual route town by town.. Florence to Impruneta - 14 miles Impruneta - Greve - 9.7 miles Greve - Castellina in Chianti - 12 miles Castellina in Chianti - Siena - 14 miles Siena - Ponte a Tressa - 8.7 miles Ponte a Tressa - San Quirico d'Orcia - 13 miles San Quirico d'Orcia - Torricella - 23 miles Torricella - Torre Alfina - 18 miles Torre Alfina - Bolsena - 12 miles Bolsena - Montefiascone - 9.1 miles Montefianscone - Viterbo - 10 miles Viterbo - Ronciglione - 14 miles Ronciglione - Sutri - 4.5 miles Sutri - Tevignano Romano - 7.2 miles Tevignano - Anguillara Sabazia - 8.5 miles Anguillara Sabazia - Rome - 25 miles It was a great trip. I know that Randotrek does self guided tours that may get you off the Cassia more (busy highway in Italy) but you live and learn.  Hope you found this info useful. -Laura |
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