It was kind of relaxing to be such a small group of friends. Now that I did it I know it wouldn't have been the same with a larger group, with different needs and times. Stopping wherever we wanted and riding free, following none else's needs but ours. If you feel you want your time to cherish, explore or simply rest the password is. Go Private ! It's time for abandoning the regular street and we get down on the dirt roads, where the real magic begins.
If that day you were on my insta-stories, you must remember the deep green landscape, surrounded by silence and clouds. Nothing. There was nothing but us there. I found my-self in that special moment in which you start having a comfortable feeling while remebering you had a hard week until some hours ago, but in the present moment, in that place, after some time biking you feel really really well. I enjoyed the presence of Marco which can be such a proper "host" along these bike-trips. You can have very interesting conversations together, as much as a very respectful and nice silence, only following your rythms.
And to be treated 100% "Francesca the fairy" drives somewhere not far behind you appearing like magic with any kind of remedies for your needs also like food and drinks (including those sunglasses I completly forgot and which saved my eyes from on million flyes ...!). Then back again for the ride, reaching from one village to the other as I only have been doing by car until that moment! It's nice to notice that if you give your-self time to slow down, things are way closer to you than what you expect.
Reaching from San Quirico d'Orcia, to Pienza only with my bike gave me another perspective about that 'distance', which is no more dividing places. Travelling with a bike or even on foot connects places together. Have you ever tried?
I am a supporter of the "slow-way", beacuse it reflects Nature rythms and leads to a better knowledge about the surroundings, contrasting with a mass-tourism which is careing about fastness and quantity. Go local, go private, go slow ;)
If you feel curious about all this, you should check what Marco and Francesca can do for you as they only arrange Private tours for you alone, you and your friends or family.
The sunday we had together felt just like being around with a friend who is well aware of the territory and who perfectly knows what to do here in Tuscany, when to be where, and why.
We ended the trip on an afternoon italian gelato, chatting and resting before coming back home.
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