Our New Normandy Tour
Last month I explained why we’ve made changes to our Normandy tour. This month is my chance to tell you all about it. First off, I’m delighted. When I first researched around Normandy, back in 2011, it was a real…
Last month I explained why we’ve made changes to our Normandy tour. This month is my chance to tell you all about it. First off, I’m delighted. When I first researched around Normandy, back in 2011, it was a real…
This month, I’m lucky to be able to share with you a new album of photos from our Alsace tour, courtesy of Friend Of The Chain Gang, Roberto Peixoto. If you visit the album on Flickr, you’ll find a selection…
In 2019, we received some bad news about one of the hotels on our Normandy Tour – they’d closed, permanently. As I mentioned in a blog post about Champagne, sometimes this doesn’t matter. Sometimes it matters a lot. In this…
Something that gives me just the tiniest frisson – connections between tours. I’ll give you an example, from our Dordogne and Loire Valley tours. One of the striking features about the Dordogne is the way that the history between England…
How is it made? Is it any good? Is there any good news? This is a difficult subject if you’re a fan of champagne, whether that’s the region, the wine, or the symbolism associated with the wine. But read until…
Two years ago, we launched a redesigned tour of Provence Most importantly, I wanted to spend more time in Provence, rather than Languedoc (!). I wanted to explore a really interesting wine region more thoroughly; make the tour perhaps a…
What’s The Most Fun You Can Have On A Bike Tour? The origins of The Chain Gang lie in a trip to Brittany back in 1992, with 3 friends. None of us had ever been on a bike tour before,…
Enjoy 10 minutes of a wonderful video of cycling in Languedoc. This is another of Roberto Peixoto’s videos, and maybe my favourite. What do I like about it? There are lots of clips of people smiling on their bikes –…
Regular readers (Regular? You haven’t written a newsletter in 10 months! – Ed) will know that last year we launched a new tour in the Languedoc region of France. I was lucky enough to go on two of our Languedoc…
We’ve been running our Alsace tour for a few years now. We’ve introduced some changes from time to time, and we decided at the end of last season to make a couple of more significant changes. Much as I love…