Our new racing bikes

Nicole and I decided to go shopping on saturday the 8th of May to get our new bikes for our birthdays. Nicole bought the TREK 2.1 and I bought the Bulls Desert Falcon 2. Nicole's bike was ready yesterday and my bike will be ready tomorrow so finally we can train for next years Alpe D'Huez :).

7 May 2010 It's my brithday 31 years old already

My birthday in Tuscany Italy and of course just like the other days RAIN brrrr. It's a strange feeling to celebrate your birthday without cake, family and friends, but I received a lot of phonecalls, Tweets and messages so thanks a lot. What did I do... we decided to travel back home by the end of the day because it was raining again so after our last drive in through Tuscany and my last pasta meal we left around 18:00h to Swifterbant and we arrived saturday morning around 09.30h save back home :).

Tuscany Italy Part Two (01-05 till 08-05)

For the moment a short summary of our holiday in Tuscany Italy. More stories and pictures will follow asap.

After a great 1st day in Tuscany the next morning (2nd of May) was BRRRRR, RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN. And to keep my story short we had the next 7 days mostly rain and a temperature of 6 till 10 degrees in general. So we did bike on our arrival day but we did not see the bike again :(. BUT we did see a lot of places in Tuscany like: Pisa, Florenze, Siena, Lucca, Montepulciano, Montalcino, Volterra and lots of places more. Of course we tasted the wines and cheese. I will post pictures asap with more stories.

Hans & Nicole to Tuscany Italy

Last week Nicole and I went on a short week holiday to Tuscany Italy. We decided to go by car because we want to travel and bike a lot. On Queens Day (April 30th) 2010 we started our journey at 07:00h from Swifterbant to Santomato Italy. We arrived around 16:00h for the Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland and there we stood still about 3 till 4 hours due to trafic jams. Around 19:00h we passed finally the tunnel and off to Lake Como were we decided to stay for the night. Last year Nicole and I went to Lake Como from Milan so we already visited the place and YES my first SPAGETTI BOLOGNESE :). On the 1st of May we left Lake Como around 09:00h to go to our final destination SANTOMATO were we arrived around 13:00h. the weather was during the trip from cold (around 10 degrees) to 26 degrees in Toscane NICE:).
We stayed at Fattoria Di Casalbosco, one word FANTASTIC even better then on picture.
So these are the first 2 days of our holiday. More to come......