Originally Posted by
sandybar
Taking a train back should be easy enough, if you're not travelling a long distance and heading towards a major destination like Florence then train travel w/a bike is easy. However, there are lots of good options for loops around Florence. Just for the record, I was disappointed w/ Florence, jam packed w/ tourists, noisy, crowded.
I started a tour in Florence in early May 2006, spent a couple days there and loved it. More tourists than I wanted to see, but I'm sure it would have been far worse later in the summer. I was told more than once on my Tuscany tour (early May 2006) that I had gotten there before the real crowds hit, and that my experience would have been very different, and a lot less pleasant, later in the season when things got more crowded.