Forget about the wine for a moment This isn’t really about the wine, it’s about great cycling, beautiful scenery and a fantastic bike path. The vineyards of Alsace stretch in a line running north to south from Strasbourg almost to…
One of France’s Most Important Wine Regions Alsace has a huge wine-making tradition dating back centuries. If you can picture the region, its bordered on the East by the river Rhine and on the West by the Vosges mountains. The…
OK, Let’s Talk About 2016. Christmas is just round the corner, and here in the northern hemisphere, as Allyson Harrison recently reminded us on Facebook, the days are about to start getting longer. Which hopefully turns people’s thoughts towards…
Our First Tours In 2015 Last year, 2014, business was good. So, believing our Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, that the financial outlook was getting better, we’ve scheduled a few more early-season tours for 2015. Not many – I…
Asciano to Montalcino, my favourite day in Tuscany The second in a series where I write about my favourite day on each of our tours. My favourite day on our Tuscany tour takes us through Le Crete, on Thursday, as…
Planning for our 2015 season OK folks, time to start getting ready for a cycling holiday. Two of our guided tours are already full, so I’m excited about a great upcoming season. If you’re interested in coming cycling with us,…
Guided Cycling Tours. Why? And which one? This is the bedrock of what we do, cycling in groups in some of the most interesting and beautiful regions of France, Italy and the UK. In 2014 we’ll have a full programme…
Of all the regions we explore on our bike tours, probably the most distinctive cuisine is on our Dordogne tour. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily the best food – that accolade probably goes to Umbria, or Tuscany, or possibly Provence.…
Time For A Proper Ride Pete is coming to visit this weekend, but he was on the train and not due until lunch time. An old friend, Sarah, was also visiting, in Devon with her kayaking club, so I was…
A few days ago I went for a ride on Woodbury Common, an area of common land close to Exeter. It was grey and miserable, it started raining, and the only gloves I could find were thin jogging gloves. Much…
