Wine biking in Italy

We stayed at a fabulous hotel called Hotel Caseus. During the summer it is the place to be. We went during the fall so the pools were too cold to go in. Although they had an amazing wellness spa. They had indoor pools, stem rooms, saunas etc. I love how Europe has so many of these places around.

I was nervous about going wine biking because of my back, leg and tailbone pain. I have had pain for about a year now and am currently in Physical Therapy to get it better. My legs were not strong at this point to be driving up hills in Italy. And boy where there a lot of those! It was so much fun to be biking because we were not on any time frame and got to pick what wineries we wanted to go to. We first started off at a pretty big winery. The guy wasn't as nice as we hoped and only gave us 2 glasses to try wine when really we needed 4. It wasn't until Heidi started speaking a little Italian did he start opening up. I understand a little why he was reluctant.  There obviously are Americans that bike and get drunk for free. That was not our intention. Heidi and Bo bought about 75 bottles of wine and Andy and I bought about 12. It is much harder for us to get wine home to the U.S. then Heidi and Bo. The next winery we went to is something I will never forget. It was a winery out of this guys house. He was so happy. I couldn't help but notice how happy he was. His winery was passed down by his father and everyday this is what he did in the hills of Italy. All he wanted to do was serve us as much wine as we could drink. He even served us wine that he didn't sell :) It is people like that, that make me smile from ear to ear. Such a happy man with not a lot going on.

For lunch we ended up going to a little grocery and getting some chicken, cheese and wine. We biked to this remote area where you could see so much of the hills. I just sat in amazement at God's wonderful creations. At that point I didn't know if I would ever see such a sight again. From this point we cycled a bit more until I was getting so tired. We went back and Heidi and I went to the wellness spa. AHH was this so amazing after a long bike ride. Then we went to dinner and I was frustrated because I was super sore and we had to walk a pretty long way to get there. We had so much food there it was crazy. The only way Europeans stay so skinny is because they walk everywhere not because of the lack of food they eat :)