Cycling tours of Italy? Trek Travel?

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Thanks for the info everyone.

Question: how much time would you recommend before and after the actual riding trip begins? We were thinking of 2 or 3 days on either side?

-Rob

Take the remnants of your first day there to recuperate, then the next day if you're out on a bike all day in the sun you're going to be better off than if you did anything else anyway.