We’ve got an album of photos from Alsace for you, courtesy of Jeremy Shindler. There are some lovely photos of birds, which is a bonus. It’s a pleasure cycling with someone who knows something about birds. I’ve chosen five photos…
(Click on any image to enlarge it) Speaking personally, the single most memorable thing about Alsace is the string of beautiful villages that make up the ‘route du vin’. The villages themselves are beautiful, and impeccably preserved. They run in…
Why? The start point was our new tour of Languedoc. Our old Provence tour spent a couple of days in Languedoc, mostly to visit the Pont du Gard. Now we have a Languedoc tour that explores Languedoc, and a Provence…
Wine has been made in Provence since the Greeks settled Marseille, before the Romans arrived. The greatest part of provençale wines are part of the Côtes du Rhône appellation. This appellation is a perfect example of the French system of…
What’s different? All the photos are professional shots, not my usual point-and-click rubbish. Some of them are beautiful. When we’d finished plotting and planning the revisions to our new tour in Provence, I asked the local Office du Torisme for…
It’s hard to gather together photos for a new tour. We have thousands of photos from Dordogne, or Tuscany, or Provence – I mean literally thousands – but none, yet, from Languedoc. So I enlisted the help of the French…
For many years, The Chain Gang have been regular visitors to the Pont du Gard, the spectacular Roman aqueduct near Uzes in the Languedoc. But, in 2018 we decided to design a new tour of the Languedoc, so inevitably the…
As ever, our new season is suddenly a whole lot closer than it was. We start our group tours on June 3rd in Normandy. But that tour is full, I’m afraid. But also in June we have tours of Alsace,…
I remember my surprise – my very pleasant surprise – when I learned that John F Kennedy not only enjoyed cycling, but had said “nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike”. I’d like to think that in…
We’re fortunate to have some new photos, courtesy of Rob Peixoto. Our Bordeaux Winetrail is a bit different from our other tours. Although we visit vineyards and enjoy wine tastings on most of our tours, in Bordeaux it’s the theme…
