Visiting The Camargue On Our Languedoc Tour One of the highlights of our Languedoc tour is our visit to Aigues-Mortes. We have a look round Arles, including the spectacular Roman arena, then we leave Arles by crossing the Rhone, into…
A Wine-Tasting Event, London – Thursday February 12th Any Chain Gangers in London? Pay attention! I was delighted to learn that the eldest son of one of my closest friends has started a ‘side-hustle’ right out of The Chain Gang’s…
Last year (OK, a couple of weeks ago) I read an article about hidden gems to visit in France. I haven’t been able to track down the article, but one of its 5 ‘gems’ was Nîmes. And it struck me…
This is a plea for help. So, unless you’re literally in the process of booking a holiday, everybody else, could you take 2 minutes, and see if you could help me? I’m after your photos – your Chain Gang photos.…
Relive! was perhaps my favourite discovery of 2019. It’s an app for your phone, easy to use, and great fun. Relive! records your route, allows you to take photos along the way, and at the end of the day you…
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 –…
Vineyards and wines In The Languedoc. Languedoc-Rousillon is a huge wine-producing region. The weather is perfect for growing grapes, and the Languedoc, until recently, had a reputation for producing vast lakes of ‘OK’ French plonk, under a series…
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…
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…
