Photos from Languedoc
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…
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Our New Tour – The Languedoc
Our Itinerary How hard is it? It ain’t. A fairly flat tour, with some modest hills at the end of the week. We start and finish in Villeneuve-les-Avignon, next to Avignon. 8 Days / 7 Nights. An Introduction to the…
Essentials for anoraks (like me and Stuart Marshall)
Maps. Can you ever have too many maps? All our tours are mapped on a website called www.mapometer.com You can look at our routes in minute detail, zoom in to see every turn and path we take, and you can…
New Album from our Umbria tour, 2017
I spent all of September in Italy, running our Tuscany and Umbria tours back-to-back. This year some of my favourite Chain Gangers joined me over the course of the month, and it really reminded me that I don’t rave about…
A Guest Blog About An Afternoon in Tuscany, By Mike Pattenden
TUSCANY Back in September, my good friend Mike Pattenden joined The Chain Gang in Italy for a month to help out with, well, with everything. By profession Mike’s a journalist, so inevitably he wrote a short piece for us about…
Aigues Mortes
The Highlight of our Languedoc Tour. I don’t think our new tour of the Languedoc is on our website yet (it might be, check it out, it will be any-day), but I am thrilled with it, and I want to…
The Aqueduct of Nimes
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…
Chain Gang 2017 – The State Of Play
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,…
People speaking much more eloquently about bikes than I ever could!
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…
A New Gallery of Photos From Our Bordeaux Winetrail
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…
