Cycling and staying fit in Italy – Watch us ride on country road from Galatina to Galatone in Italy

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hi I’m Jennifer welcome to salv salento uh today’s video is going to be on staying fit in Italy I get this question a lot and this is something that we didn’t know before actually moving to the area if we were going to be able to ride our bicycles or you know if they had gyms or you know what was the whole workout scene there um in Italy so we brought our bicycles with us and we had no idea if we were going to be able to ride how the roads were or anything like that but um the roads are actually pretty good so we we brought our road bikes we have you know road bicycles that have thin tires um there’s other kinds of riding that you can do there you can do some mountain biking or you know Road riding you can go into the to the dirt and you know ride through trails and Fields and things like that um when you get close to the coast there are a lot of mountain bike trails that you could take down to the beaches and things if they’re you know the the terrain is a little bit Rocky obviously we can’t bring our road bikes there we kind of stop at the top and we look down but we can’t get down there on our bikes which is fine um we get to see a lot from not being able to you know go down to the beach anyway but um it’s a great ride so you can do pretty much any kind of bike riding that you want and the roads are in decent condition and even the country road so after this little you know intro on the video I’m actually going to have a video of the road ride from galatina to galat so you’ll be able to see what it looks like on the country road and you know see their houses and farms and all kinds of things there’s uh a little dog rescue that’s there um Dennis is riding so he passes it passes it really fast but um there’s a dog rescue on the way there’s all kinds of um you know grape vine Vineyards um olive trees Farmland things like that and um it’s a really nice view there’s country homes so you can see those and um it’s a really nice video but um so Road riding is great you can do mountain bike riding um you can do pretty long distances we weren’t stopped by you know bad roads when you get to some towns they may have a road here and there that’s you know they haven’t kept up but they patch a lot so you can always find some way to ride from town to town and in between there’s not really there’s no not a lot of traffic or it’s not busy so you can kind of take your time um and enjoy the scenery and you don’t have to feel pressured and worry about being you know cars passing you at high rate of speed a lot or you know they’re being a lot of traffic you can kind of just go from town to town and the road ride is actually very beautiful to to be able to you know see it every town is different so you can see something nice and new in every town um we did do the gym in the winter so when it gets the weather gets a little chilly and or if it’s rainy a lot and we can’t ride which it does happen for a few months in the winter you get the rainy season and that ride um is not a pleasant one you know if it if it’s cold and the roads are really wet so we just instead of you know doing that we say you know what we’re going to do gym and we joined a gym last year and we did go for a few months in the winter when we weren’t able to ride our bikes and it was it was fine so the gym we went to had a pool um indoor swimming so you can actually swim there’s tennis around they have indoor tennis so even in the winter if you want to play tennis you can still play there are Outdoor Sports once the weather you know warms up or you know until it it gets a little too cold you can actually just play outside it’s the weather there is very very favorable to doing a lot of sports outside so you don’t have to feel like you know oh I got to stay in you know all winter and I can only work out in you know June and July and August you’re not going to want to work outside in June July and August if you do you’re going to do it really early in the morning and because it gets hot but um so but most of the time during the year you can do Outdoor Sports and the facilities have indoor and outdoor um a lot of people do runs too there’s a lot of races that happen there’s a bunch that happen in in our town and in the surrounding towns in the whole area they’ll have coordinated you know races where you can sign up and you know do the race and just like you would in the US they have running races competitions and they have a few of them down by the the coast so those are really nice to to be able to see I mean we’re not Runners um but they we know a lot of people that do participate in those races and they’re are a lot of fun so they’re the same idea that you would have in the US um so and there go a few golf courses around I know that there are um there’s one I think maybe it’s 45 minutes north of us a course a nice course that you could play golf in so if you like to golf you are able to do that too um it’s not such a popular sport there but they do have you know golf courses to cater to people that are traveling that do want to play golf um so I hope that this was you know a little bit of information for you because I know it was difficult for us when we first were thinking about going to Italy and we didn’t we were like what do we do if we get there and we can’t ride on the roads but that would be tulous you know why wouldn’t we be able to do that but I hope that this helps give you a little insight into how it actually is there because we have no problem just hopping on our bikes the coastline is a little bit more hilly you will you know if we we do get some climbs near those areas um so you do it is a little challenging sometimes you so you can pick which kind of ride you want to have if you want to have a you know nice and easy ride sometimes if we’re out late we were out with our friends really late I say no I don’t want to do a lot of Hills today I just want to do a nice Easy Ride you can do that or if you just want to go the whole what the whole thing you can do the whole thing and you can really find some very challenging rides and actually the further south you go Southeast it gets a little difficult you know some of the inclines are very very high and um a few of them when we did that ride we had to actually walk up the hill so when we get back to Italy I’m going to be filming a lot more rides that we do because when we we were there we didn’t have the special camera and um I saidou know what I’m just not comfortable with doing that yet but now since we’ve been doing so many more videos I’m definitely going to be sharing those rides with you so stay tuned for the ride that Dennis did from galatina to Galatin and we’ll see you again soon take care [Music] ciao [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] all [Music] [Applause] all [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah yeah [Music] he [Music] he oh [Music] he [Music] oh [Music] oh baby all I need I need one more chance oh baby let me show you I need one more chance I 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