Day 37 n 38 17/18 Jun - Two Days of Long Walking Tours of Ancient Rome

17 Jun Spend :            Weather:  20 - 32°c Hot n sunny
18 Jun Spend :            Weather:  20 - 32°c Hot n sunny

There is a saying " Rome was not built in one day " , I am still wonder is there any city that can be built in ONE day !! Maybe it is just to stress How big Rome is. And the past 2 days of walking in the heart of the city, I am totally convinced that the city is really big,and it looks like every corner is a touristic area with lots of tourists, walking,walking and non stop walking. Lots of pictures taken for your viewing.

Day 36 Thu 16/06 - Early Ride into Rome

Today Disatnce : 59.6 km   Total: 1769.1 km                                                                                            Today Temp : 20 - 30°c                                                                                                                        Today Spending : 16.51 euro    Total: 571.09 euro                                                                                   Time on Bike : 3 hr  25 min                                                                                                                  Today Ave Speed: 17.4 kmh   Max: 61.5 kmh                                                                                          Today Ave Climb: 3%       Max: 18%                                                                                                       Trip Altitude : 556 m    Max: 299 m

To our surprise,the olive farm owner came to his farm as early as 6.30 am in his old car, but then I was already awake, as he came out from his car, I approached him trying to explain why we landed and camp in his farm and we will be leaving in a short while.From his friendly expression and hand langugge,I knew he was trying to tell me " No problem,no problem,take your time!" With no worry and hurry,we continued to cook our breakfast and was started rolling at 7.10am, our earliest so far. Mostly downhills for the 1st 35 km, and the traffic became heavy once we joined the SS2 main road to Rome, more like a Dual carriage highway now,but fortunately there is enough shoulder for us.We turn into Prima Porta which is just outside the ring to look for Tiber Camping, but gave up completely and settled for Happy Village Camping instead. 9.5 euro per person with 1 euro gov tax, we managed to bargain for tent free. There is a shuttle bus service provided by the camping to a train station to the Rome centro.

Giant Tent

And our tents

Day 35 Wed 15/06 - Wild Camping on Olive Farm after Vignanello

Today Disatnce : 93.2 km    Total: 1709.3 km                                                                                           Today Temp : 20 - 30°c                                                                                                                          Today Spending : 5.8 euro    Total: 555.08 euro                                                                                      Time on Bike : 5 hr  54 min                                                                                                                      Today Ave Speed: 15.8 kmh    Max: 60 kmh                                                                                      Today Ave Climb: 3%       Max: 16%                                                                                                     Trip Altitude :1089 m     Max: 533 m

After bidding goodbye to Matt and Andrew,we started the ride early 8.45 am on opposite directions.We are heading Rome while Matt and Andrew is heading the way we came.Our target today originally is to find camping in Viterbo, and is supposed to pass thru 3 lakes: Lake Boisena,Lake Di Vico and Lake Bracciano, but in the end we only managed to see Lake Boisena where many campings offering best views of the lake, but it was rather too early for us to end the day, expecially for Ivan/Annie, so we moves on hopping the other 2 lakes will offer the same lakeviews,but somehow or rather at Viterbo after shopping at incoop supermarket,I suggested to take a smaller road S204 which is nearer to the lakes than the SR2, when we were on S204 and at one stretch heading to the mountain, both wanted to turn back to Viterbo on SR2 , but one local cyclist advised to take the Soriano road which is longer but less hilly but will miss the 2 lakes that mentioned. This road is not touristic, so chances of finding camping is out. We filled up our bottles with a public tap at Vignanello and ends a long tiring ride wild camping in an olive farm.

Lake Boisena witl many Campings

Taking a rest while Ivan/Annie way in front

Catch up with Ivan/Annie at this bike shop

Still not ripe

Grapes planted on the road side

Olive Farm wild camping



Sunset