Essentially, a lot of people would like to go around riding a scooter in Italy, but most people don't do it because they don't feel comfortable doing it in the city. Scooter rentals are in the city, and even if one wants to rent one to ride in the country, still part of the trip would have to be in the city. Then, supposing they rent a scooter and ride out in the country, there are pretty good possibilities that they miss the best places because they're not familiar with the place. My idea is to bring the people to the country, give them a scooter to ride and lead them around to the most interesting places. I do guided tours in the countryside, providing scooters, guidance, and any kind of assistance needed, including the possibility of doing the same tours by car in case of rain and hotel bookings.

I've always wanted to show people the area where I live and I've always liked to ride a motorcycle or scooter.

I started to take people around this area when I first moved here from Rome, about 17 years ago. The first people I showed around here, were my Roman friends when they eventually came to visit me. They enjoyed it so much that it made think that, if though they were indigenous and they had a pretty good idea of what they were going to see they had a great time, then maybe a tourist from abroad would have enjoyed it even more for everything would be more unusual and surprising to him. The first opportunity came, several years ago, when a couple from USA hired me for a week. I took them to all the famous places and finally they had one day left that was open, no plans.

I proposed to them to tour in my area, off the beaten path: Fiuggi, Trisulti, Alatri and Fumone. I was hesitant to to make this proposition and I must have not sounded too convincing, though, There's a big difference between taking paying customers on a tour and showing friends your place! In fact they declined the offer and said they would have just strolled in the streets of Rome taking it easy. I was surprised when they later changed their mind and called me in the evening saying they decided to go on this tour.

Well, to make a long story short, at the end of the day they told me it was the best tour of their whole vacation!

I was so happy and felt so confident, that since then I started to advertise this tour on my website. It has been selling well ever since and, in spite of the fact that most tourists don't stay in Rome long enough to have time to go on a country tour, I still get to do it quite often and always with very satisfied clients.

In the cities you see girls wearing stilettos and business men in suits and ties riding them, so the tourists end up being attracted and want to try riding one. Driving in the city with my clients, noticing the scooters whizzing by, I've often heard them say: "I'd like to try one!". But when I asked if they were serious the answer was always "Not in the city!".

It has also happened that my clients stayed in Segni. The first time it was a family that booked an apartment in Rome but the agency messed up with their reservation and they couldn't find another accommodation in Rome. In July the city is packed! I got them rooms at "La Pace", they stayed in Segni for a week and loved it. Another time it was a group of two couples who were going to stay in Rome for three nights but they only had rooms for the first two. So they stayed in at "La Pace" their third night and it worked out well because the final day I had to transfer them to Florence and it was a lot easier going

Wanting to save money, you can reach Segni by train, you would have to take a train from Rome's main train station, Termini, to Colleferro or Anagni. Both of these places are only a few minutes drive from where I live and the train ride is only about 50 minutes. But the best would be to spend at least one night here.

My thought was: most of my clients stay in Rome three or four nights and the first two days they spend touring around the city of Rome (usually with my help) then the third day I take them to an excursion in the country. Finally they move to Florence or the Amalfi Coast. I thought that the third night could be spent in Segni, adding maybe a fourth or fifth night (the cost for two nights at "La Pace" would still be about half

the price of one night in a similar hotel in Rome) and do the tours in the countryside from Segni instead of starting from Rome. This way one would also get an idea of what the country of Italy is like and not only the big cities or the most famous tourist attractions! You might wonder why I live in Segni. Well, this is where my mother's family came from and when, back in 1990, my landlord wanted back the apartment I was renting because she needed it for her son, I decided to move to the country and chose Segni because I was very

Just in case you shouldn't find the accommodations in Segni comfortable enough for you, or if they shouldn't have availability there, Fiuggi offers lots of good hotels and the most famous of these is the Palazzo della Fonte, an incredibly luxurious 5-star hotel with all the possible comforts, including a golf course!