19 May 2019: Sorano to Orbetello: Mileage: (52/288)

We started about an hour earlier due to the forecast of rain later in the morning. However, it rained fairly heavily just as we started. The early part of the ride involved the usual ups and downs before generally going flat or down-sloping toward the Tyrrhenian Sea. We set maps.me for the Orbetello train station, as Christopher needs to catch a train to Sienna on Monday. Then we followed a bike path to the heart of Orbetello, caught the TI person as she was leaving, and got a B & B recommendation. Toni had a room, cash only, no passport required. Yes, avoiding taxes remains an Italian tradition. We ate lunch nearby, then biked out the causeway bike path to Porto Ercole. Dinner was a fish restaurant, followed by gelato. 

Once in Orbetello, we got a room just inside the walls at Toni and Judi's Bed and Breakfast, ate lunch, and rode out to Porto Ercole.

Departing Sorano in the Rain. Note the aqueduct in the center of the photo.

Steep Descent in the rain.

Sorano from the opposite side of the canyon.

Guard Cat

Opposite the guard cat, with running water on the road.


Just one stone wonder after another.

Our Orbetello B & B

Remains of a windmill on the causeway to Porto Ercole.

Porto Ercole Harbour

Hilltop forts guarding the entrance to Porto Ercole

For Kevin. Fishing off the breakwater.


Just a few million invested in a huge carbon fiber yacht. 




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