{"id":804,"date":"2019-09-23T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:20:04","slug":"day-8-pistoia-to-siena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/day-8-pistoia-to-siena\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8. Pistoia to Siena."},"content":{"rendered":"

68 miles and 1517 metres climbed.<\/p>\n

A long tough day, not helped by rain for most of it, some of it very heavy.<\/p>\n

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We were in the Tuscan Hills where gradients were often above 10% and sometimes 17%, Beautiful scenery but little time to soak it in.<\/p>\n

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Alvin\u2019s puncture No ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A welcome lunch of \u00a0salad and pasta at about 35 miles then more rain to the brew stop to change into something dry.<\/p>\n

Then into Chianti country.<\/p>\n

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…. and a reward.<\/p>\n

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Gold at the end of the rainbow. Post ride beer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The view from the hotel,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A very wet day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

68 miles and 1517 metres climbed. A long tough day, not helped by rain for most of it, some of it very heavy. We were in the Tuscan Hills where gradients were often above 10% and sometimes 17%, Beautiful scenery but little time to soak it in.   A welcome lunch of \u00a0salad and pasta … Continue reading “Day 8. Pistoia to Siena.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-munich-to-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fordingbridgeweather.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}