Places We Love to Bicycle around the World

Just in time for Valentines Day, we asked our Ciclismo fans what place they love to ride and here is the list

I will start with mine:
Sardinia: Captivating at every curve
Tuscany: Where the Ciclismo Story began
The Dolomites: Magnificent!
Le Marche: Soulful roots of my family tree
Puglia: Playful & bursting with Flavor
Keene, NH: Views of Mt Monadnock take me home
Lofoten, Norway: Leave me here for a month to explore!
Abruzzo: Piano Grande. Fly Me to the Moon

Allyson Jones Wong; Bike Across Italy
Sorano! I loved that breath taking view from our castle hotel room in the misty morning. My husband and I went there on our honeymoon. It was our first trip with Ciclismo.
http://www.slowtrav.com/italy/tuscany/pitigliano.htm

Nathaniel Hefferman: Cape Cod
The Cape Cod Rail Trail - where my wife and I started dating.
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/southeast/ccrt.htm

Bobbie Carlton (Nate's Wife!)
17 years ago -- Cape Cod Rail Trail -- trying to decide if the guy on the bicycle ahead of me was The One. (Note: we've now been married 15 years.)

Susan Cassidy: Martha's Vineyard
Easy -- a ride with my husband on the Vineyard, out to Gay Head. Got caught in a brief cloudburst so we took refuge at and got a great snack at a farmer's market in (I think) West Tisbury. It was a great day, simply awesome ride, and I loved introducing my husband to biking on the Vineyard.
http://www.mvy.com/CWT/External/WCPages/WCDirectory/BikingOnTheVineyardDirectory.aspx?Category=bicycle&Adkeyword=bicycle&EntityID=0

Julia Kropp
My top five lifetime rides:
5. Sonoma Wine Country Loop
4. Ride Around Lake Tahoe
3. Best Buddies Ride Down California Highway One
2. Biking Across the Golden Gate Bridge to Tiburon ... See More
1. Ciclismo Classico's Bike Across Italy (the whole thing- it's gorgeous!)

Rich Poliak
To be honest virtually anywhere in Italy! There are several rides and places that come to mind where Cath and I have great memories:
Bike across Italy - we did it twice, 94' and 00'.
Giro D'Italia we did that one twice as well, 96' and 01'- the climb from Norcia to Piano Grande for a great picnic of formaggi e salumi con tartufi! I'm hungry now....
SR222 from Firenze to Greve and then to Siena. Wow!
Riding through the Crete outside of Pienza...
Riding in Puglia especially all the Trulli around Alberobello.
I can go on and on...

Kimberly Kapner
On the top of the wall in Lucca with my hubby. And through beautiful English countryside and towns stopping for pub lunches and tea (same companion).

Rob Jones: Paris
Let's see...late night ride around the glass Pyramid at the Louvre! Lit from below...street musician playing a saxophone...beautiful summer evening.

Alyson Fletcher
So hard to decide! Montreal was quite nice - over the bridges, to the islands, to the tippy top of Mont Royal and all the museums and sites in between. They even have bike stoplights! & Separated and protected bike lanes! Other competitors:
1. Vancouver - biked around the entire city peninsula. Almost all coastal, with vistas to the beaches, ... See Moreoceans, forests, and mountains. (How awesome is Canada??!)
2. The Finger lakes: Biked around the finger lakes in western new york during the Musselman Tri - cool breezes, vinyards, farm animals, and mennonites trotting alongside on horse and buggies. So cute!

Giovanni Massa
Along the Danubium from Wien to Praga

Michael Stechow
Hard to pick one best, but in no particular order:
Montenegro - Kotor to Cetinje and back
Macedonia - Ohrid and Prespa lakes ride
Greece - loop around Sithonia peninsula
France - Mont Ventoux, my tandem partner was so proud...

Thorey Jonsson Goldstein: Puglia
http://www.ciclismoclassico.com/trip_finder/view_trip/128/easy_pedaling_puglia
Biking in the Puglia region with my husband on a tandem. Spectacular! And then of course riding up to the Marroon Bells in Aspen.

John Dancy: Bike Across Italy
1. The climb from Fossombrone up through the Cesane forest to Urbino - i made a lifelong friend on that trip, thanks Ciclismo!
2. Mountain biking the Resurrection Pass Trail, Kenai Wilderness Preserve, Alaska - 40 Epic Miles
3. Tossa De Mar to Sant Feliude Guixols, not a long ride, but spectacular twists and turns along the Mediterranean in Spain's Gold Coast, near Girona
4. My favorite loop at home in Loudoun County, VA, along Snickersville Turnpike, which alway reminds of the farm country in Tuscany. Bellisimo!