On Nîmes, in the Languedoc.
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…
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The Chain Gang Needs You!
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.…
Get Into Relive!
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…
Will it Sabre?
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,…
Video – Touring Languedoc With The Chain Gang
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 –…
Why Wine Is More Interesting In The Languedoc
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…
A Photo Tour Of Languedoc
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…
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…
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…
