Cycling trip in Italy

[MojoGrrl]

Now that I have mostly recovered from traveling, I finally put up all the pictures from my trip to Italy last month. My boyfriend (now fiance) and a friend went to Italy for two weeks to ride and then go to a wedding. We were in the Abruzzo region and stayed in a small village outside of the city of Teramo. We went through these folks for our cycling tour, and it was very reasonably priced (four of us shared a house, and my and my partner's share was $1000 - this included bike rental; we got Surlys).

Weather was comparable to where we're from in Northern CA - it was actually hotter than we'd expected (in the mid 90's) and everyone in Italy said it was unseasonably hot, but it did cool down gradually over the time we were there (until we went to the wedding, where it was closer to 100 degrees, and really humid). The food was great, everything was reasonably priced and the scenery was amazing, as you can see from my pictures: Photoset

We did a LOT of climbing, every day - very very hilly terrain, and the village was up on a hill, so every time we came home we had to climb. Some very steep climbs and descents, and on the last day of riding we went up to Pietracamela, about 3000 feet.

A lot of fun and I highly recommend it!!

[lovelygamer]

Italy is on my must see list. Your pictures are beautiful. Congrats on your engagement. How romantic is that? Were you surprised? The cycling looked great too.

P.S. Love your tattoo's! I have quite a few myself.

[pll]

Congratulations on the engagement! Great pictures. In June, I visited Italy for the first time -- riding around Rimini. Someone had posted a link to a Living Social offer in this forum and I had to... Now I may have to follow your lead for next year. It's was so enjoyable and beautiful I need to do a similar trip again.

[indysteel]

Congratulations and best wishes to you and your fiancé. What a lovely place to get engaged. It looks like you guys had a great trip!

[gnat23]

Hah, perfect! My then-boyfiend and I also did the cycling-in-Italy-and-got-engaged hat trick. Highly recommended.

(our trip, unfortunately, it ended up dumping rain on us almost the entire trip, only got two good rides in)

Your pictures are awesome, and glad you had a great time. Congrats!!

-- gnat!

[Tri Girl]

Congrats on your engagement!! Lovely pictures- looks like it was the PERFECT vacation in every way!

[MojoGrrl]

Italy is on my must see list. Your pictures are beautiful. Congrats on your engagement. How romantic is that? Were you surprised? The cycling looked great too.

P.S. Love your tattoo's! I have quite a few myself.

Thanks! I was actually expecting the proposal but I was still very very excited when he asked

[colby]

That looks/sounds awesome! We loved our cycling trip in Tuscany, where we also encountered lots of the villages-on-hills, too. And, congratulations! I'm not sure what kind of honeymoon comes after such a great engagement trip.