---
title: 'Tuscany 2026'
template: trip
date: '2026-09-01'
date_start: '2026-09-01'
date_end: '2026-09-08'
cover_image: ''
tagline: 'A week through the hill towns of southern Tuscany by bike'
---

We set out from Campiglia with panniers full and no fixed plan beyond a rough
line south through the Val d'Orcia. What followed was a week of gravel farm
roads, long climbs into walled towns, and slow evenings that smelled of
woodsmoke and ripe figs.

This is the running account of that ride — the villages that surprised us, the
food that kept us pedalling, and the quiet stretches of road where the whole
trip finally made sense.