ESCAPE- OLOGY Magazine Issue 2 | Page 26

Tuscany By Bike

It's 10 am, in a lucky sunny day of a very rainy spring. I'm arriving with my friend in a sweet little village called San Quirico, in Val d'Orcia area.

Getting out of the car I 'm enjoying the feeling of a very warm sun, that my italian skin has been craving since some time.

On that sunday I was supposed to meet with Marco and Francesca our two special guides for the day. It's the very first time I meet them, I only spoke with Marco by the phone, and he seemed like a very easy going man, with a friendly attitude and that sparkle of glee often italian men do have.

Punctual, smiling and very well equipped they welcomed us to this new one-day-bike-adventure through the majestic landscape of Val d'Orcia.

First stop is right here in the village of San Quirico for a first 20 minutes introduction about the coming hours and the private bike-tour. I actually shouldn't use the word 'tour' as it sounds so tour--istic! What I would have experienced in the coming hours is pure fun with friends.

I'll start saying that my bike was an eco-bike (I chose it instead of the normal, mountain or race ones) and it was my very first time useing it. After 30 seconds I realized that it was going to be crazy fun and easy, because an eco-bike is like a motor-bike but without the noisy part and way slowlyer!

Twenty minutes passed by, I turn my head and I see this: poppy and yellow flowers fields, just on the edge of an amazing landscape where the way to describe I often use is: an ocean of green waves.

And on the top of some of the 'waves', those typicals rural houses we have here in Tuscany.

Stareing at that panorama, we stop and we let Francesca reach us from behind, in the van, carrying us fresh drinks and fruit.