Between June 16th and June 19th, 2023, our family biked along the Via Francigena from Radicofani to Rome. This documents our 4-part journey toward Rome.
This was part of a 5 month long bike tour of Europe.
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Day 68: Radicofani to Lago di Bolsena
4:21 Day 69: Lago di Bolsena to Vetralla
16:44 Day 70: Vetralla to Campagnano di Roma
28:28 Day 71: Campagnano di Roma to Roma
The final leg of our journey on the Via francha takes us through Lazio all the way to Rome we stopped in to camp at Lake balena then continued on through the Wilds of Lazio biked on an ancient Roman Road and made some more new friends along the way to the Eternal City There’s lake lake or an ocean that’s our Lake You To We decided to plot our own route along the lake rather than follow the official via Fran route oh boy oh boy well sometimes when you improvise this is the coastal route get through the sand okay watch out there some prickers here Too wow wow oh boy can you go right there Rita what can you take a right right there a right yeah right there a left sorry a left yeah my right your left another okay cuz there’s a big giant puddle in front of us but let’s just see what it is
Here can you get through there we go guy running coming at Us there we go girls are finding a way go straight yeah Let’s Ste Deep oh here it is yes Okay The [Applause] [Applause] What Elephant You Oh there’s elevators here I don’t know what this is yeah hold on let me see for one one at a time or what yeah one at a Time let’s see what happens where do we go FL what okay mey there hello hello SS a hill I guess that works you don’t have to bike up it I suppose what we do here we are In vetala we stayed at lento contento where we felt kinship with our hosts Pao and Nino adventurers in their own right who decided to give back to the pilgrim Community by creating a wonderful respit for pilgrims on the Via Fran Good boys good boy General We’re going down yeah okay definitely yeah I was going to take another look gu but I think we He’s excited going crazy doggy Okay [Applause] That J for the Prickers Hey a lot of pricker bushes man it’s a little bit overgrown just a bit oh sheepies sheep sheep sheep sheep sheep sheep yeah brand new Road [Applause] Is We’re almost done for today but we got to get up to this town it looks [Applause] Like You got it Rita Maybe whoa okay very close all right we’re almost there almost There keep going Memes Job all right oh yeah no ebike okay where we going oh little kitty cat Hello Kitty oh two one up ahead oh there this one snuck by okay go memes Follow the yellow arrows all what did it say oh maybe this is it Canterberry theago the Compella so this is our final day on the Via franina we should get into Rome after about 45 kilometers um we’ll go to St Peter square and that’s kind of the the uh the end point of the Via franina so we’re excited we’re ready for some uh ready for some rest one Gino
Okay okay okay horsey it’s okay it’s okay it’s Okay okay Okay no no we’re not going to catch it I’m just going as only as fast as he’s going yeah oh there we go now he’s in the field now he can Try oh yeah okay this is the hill it’s the big hill of the day coming up I feel like we’re going to be on this bike path any minute Now made it onto the bike path oops but it ends right here oh where do we go here we go Straight aha here we go here’s our bike path this will take us all the way uh practically to St Peter’s Square Turn Off H Oh wait a minute hold on he yeah we got to get up there we do need to get up there what we we need to get up there but that was steps right steps yeah we don’t want to do steps but we do need to get up there
Somehow Kut does not uh recognize the steps yeah that’s what I’m thinking just go a little further and see if there’s a way to get up that’s not steps that’d be great yeah it says to go back right okay let’s do that let’s follow that that’s what I was just checking too
Okay let’s try backwards don’t think this is going to do it for us Google just sent us a different wrong way yeah there’s no no Google says to go this way Google says to go this way so yeah there’s not even a railing there um hold on let’s see let’s see something
Here no I mean maybe but bike come on yeah I know that doesn’t make sense I do see a a pathway here it’s back quite a ways but it’s not back all the way yeah so I I do see a there’s a green pathway that breaks off to the
Left like it would have join it would have joined in here oh God yeah I saw let’s just see little further stuck down in the river it’s nice it’s nice down in the river but we just can’t get to where we need to go there’s our path up wow one more of these
Huh oh man woo we Little Are You having completed our via frion of pilgrimage we celebrated by visiting St Peter’s Basilica before getting back on our bikes for a final ride through the streets of Rome Ooh wow it’s our favorite kind of Road whoa look at that We enjoyed the sights of Rome some well-earned rest and some fairwell tury suit but we were also eager to get to our next stop Switzerland for cooler temperatures and high mountain Passes
2 Comments
This was fascinating, as usual. Everyone who does bicycle touring videos could take lessons from how you've done these. It would be interesting if sometime you could drop a few more hints about how you manage to find such interesting routes. I've heard you mention Komoot a few times, and Eurovelo routes, and that sometimes you depart from the usual routes, but it didn't sound like you found that old Roman road by accident.
TANKYOU😊