Tuscany

On any given afternoon in the hills of Tuscany, you’ll see pelotons of cyclists out training on gleaming bikes, their limbs as tanned and lithe as pros’. Over white-gravel roads lined with cypress trees, past centuries-old villas and fortified towns, which top the olive groves and vineyards for which their native land is famous, they roll. Join them and they will be glad to chatter. Just try to hold their wheels on the climbs.