Final day on the road for this edition and I planned a very light run of 21km into Pisa. Our B&B was just a block from the piazza antifeatro and exactly the kind of accommodation that works best for us. Our genial host Giuseppe had a secure place for bike storage a few blocks away. He recommended a few good restaurants, what sights to see, supplied a typical breakfast and charged a reasonable price for the room.
We negotiated the cobblestones of the empty Sunday morning streets, picked up some lunch groceries, and rode south. The weather had cooled to very comfortable temperatures the last couple of days, much better for cycling.
The ride to Pisa was quite gentle, only about 20 kms and very little uphill. The excitement of the day was a tunnel which turned out to be straight forward as it was well lit, only 600 meters or so and 2 lanes wide. We rode to the leaning tower to take a photo of it with the bikes and then made our way back to the hotel where we began our tour. The afternoon was spent disassembling the bikes and packing up for our flights out the next day. We enjoyed a final meal of pizza in one of the piazzas and celebrated a successful tour with wonderful friends.
Half the team on the cobbly wobblies leaving our nice B&B and Lucca
The excitement of the day was doing 45km/hr downhill in the dark through this km long tunnel
The Giro di Tuscany 2013 comes to a close with the triumphant ride back to the Hotel le Torre
Note still more checklist revisions, some involving care and spares of passports, sunglasses, wallets, and phones
So it turns out there's a lot of stuff happening in Pisa tonight
... like a parade
... and a vintage car rally (seriously beautiful Alfa Giuletta Special Sprint shown here)
Up the Arno where Galeons were racing but we missed it
An A for ingenuity as the chicken clog dances to the music of the banjo
Last trip to the Tower.
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