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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Our last competition featured my favourite-ever cycling accessory. It doesn’t make you go faster, it just sits on top of your handlebars and tells you the time. I don’t suppose it’s even that brilliant of a clock, but once it’s…
A video by Jack and Nancy Haar. I’m particularly chuffed with this video. It was put together by Jack and Nancy Haar, who joined us on a self-guided tour of the Loire Valley last September. It’s very simple, a collection…
