Tuesday 22 October 2019

Viva Italia Day 38 - Stage 27 - Ferrentino to Rome




All roads do lead to Rome! Cycle Southern Italy, 
Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily 

14 September 2019 - 22 October 2019


Monday 21 October 2019

We decided to have a rest day today given the amount of traffic expected on the roads and the rough ride along the Via Appia Antica into Rome to the hotel.

After our final group photo, wearing the Viva Italia jerseys, we took the freeway with Wilma driving the white van into Rome during peak hour and came to the lunch spot at the start of the Via Appia where the red van had started preparations for lunch. Peter then drove the white van, like an Italian, to the hotel where we dismantled and packed the bikes into their cases with assistance from Peter.

I headed off to do laundry ahead of the next leg in Israel and stopped by the famous gelateria Palazzo del Freddo Giovanni Fassi which dates back to 1880 and, apart from many flavours of gelato, has a range of iced desserts – the tronchetto (ice-cream cake), cassata, Sanpietrino (a semifreddo of zabaglione, coffee, nuts and chocolate) and tramezzini (ice-cream wafer 'sandwiches' filled with Sanpietro). I opted for the Sanpietrino.

Exploring just around our hotel, I found the market and many examples of street art.

Being the last day of the tour, we had celebratory drinks on the terrace of the hotel and our farewell dinner at the nearby Pinsa & Buoi Dei restaurant.

It was a great way to finish off our amazing 38 days on tour with TDA Viva Italia!

No thanks.. Let's have a rest day...





































Sunday 20 October 2019

Viva Italia Day 37 - Stage 26 - Vairano to Ferentino




All roads do lead to Rome! Cycle Southern Italy, 
Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily 

14 September 2019 - 22 October 2019


Sunday 20 October 2019

Another jump start to the top of the hill and a downhill start from around 15.5km.

I was so interested in a church that I missed a turn and we ended up backtracking about 9km which put us right at the back of the group.

Nonetheless, we stopped for coffee and cake on the way to lunch, by an interesting cemetery, where we called it a day and vanned in to the hotel.


115.2km +1344m/-1255m