Tuscany Trail 2016

[Taylor]

Oooh, no, this one!?!

http://www.booking.com/hotel/it/casa-va ... ,A,A,A,A,A

Still only 25€ pppn (ish) and it's got a pool!

A little closer to town too.

Think that's the one jase mentioned with no secure lock up for the bikes.

[gairym]

Aaah, didn't know that.

A courtyard with all the bikes locked together would be fine I reckon (I'd be happy to do it anyway).

It's out of town and likely to be quiet and dad's. Plus, we're going to be sleeping with them loose next to us in the hills every night after that anyway.

I'm keen to get something booked asap (before everything goes) so ready to commit whenever others are.....

[slarge]

I'd be happy to stay there on the Wednesday night. Who else is in?

If you want me to book it, drop me a line to slarge at jaguarlandrover dot com with a commitment and ill book it on Tuesday).

[gairym]

.....and likely to be quiet and dad's

Huh?

Maybe I meant to write 'safe'?

You get the point anyway.

I'm in. Happy to either transfer money once it's booked or to book it for others and get money transferred to me.

[Taylor]

If everybody else is happy with it I don't see why not.

[adjustablewench]

Interested in booking soon - how far out is this place

[gairym]

It's 3 miles from the start.

[rufus748]

Sounds good, count me in.
Looks like everything that will take groups is filling up fast.

[Chew]

Count me in too.

Sent you an email earlier Steve

[gairym]

Email sent Steve.

[Wotsits]

I'd be happy to stay there, i'll send you an email over now Steve..

[slarge]

The place is now booked for 10 people, and 10 have signed up, so we're full. With 10 of us it works out at under £20 each.

So far there's
Slarge
Chew
Rufus748
S softie
Taylor
Wotsits
Gairy
Hux
Mike
Wenchie

[Wotsits]

Thanks Steve

[Taylor]

Just PP you the money, Cheers

[gairym]

You've been Paypal'd!!!

[Taylor]

Only 9 places left

[rufus748]

Payment sent. Thanks again for sorting it out.

[adjustablewench]

Thanks for sorting Steve :)

[rufus748]

I'm struggling to load the maps Taylor posted onto an SD card.... My IT skills aren't great but the instructions appeared easy.

I've downloaded from here:

http://www.wanderreitkarte.de/garmin_de.php

To a zip file. From there I can't get it onto my card

Using a Garmin Oregon and Basecamp.

Any tips?? Thanks

[slarge]

Is there enough space on the card? I had to buy a new card for my garmin 800 as the one that came with it wasn't big enough.
I also struggled to get the maps onto the new card when it was in the Garmin, so I put it in the SD slot in the laptop and then it transferred the maps no problem.

The garmin can now recognise the maps, but I can't see them as I'm not in Italy yet....

[slarge]

It was a case of drag and drop, rather than using Basecamp or other software.

[rufus748]

I've bought a new card a put it in the SD slot as I wanted to keep it separate and not risk losing the Garmin supplied maps.
I've tried saving to the card and nothing happened. A drag and drop now shows that there's content on the card but the Garmin won't read it.
Maybe I should ask my 8yr old to do it for me?

[slarge]

You did unzip the file? The garmin needs to see the raw file (can't remember the extension, but it is the same as the OS maps).

[rufus748]

You did unzip the file?.

Errrrr, no....

I thought it was a straight download. Best I get googling.....

[adjustablewench]

What's everyone riding? Was thinking cx but if everyone is going for the comfier rigid mtb machine I may change my mind . . .