Our New Champagne Tour
If it isn’t already a Tour Operator maxim, never to let anyone look behind the curtain, then it probably should be. So let’s have a little peak together! I’m very proud of our new Champagne tour. I thought it was…
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Champagne Bike Tour – Photo Gallery
In September 2023, Roberto Peixoto joined us from Brazil on a bike tour through Champagne. I won’t tell you much about the new tour here, I’ve done that elsewhere. I just want to showcase Roberto’s Photo Diary of our week…
A Wonderful Find In Tuscany
Talking to a mucker recently, I was reminded of one of my favourite places in Tuscany, Le Cantine, in Greve-in-Chianti. But first impressions were not so good! On our very first tour of Tuscany, years ago, we’d arranged to visit…
Looking To 2024
About 2024. This year, 2023, was the first time since Brexit, and since the Covid-19 pandemic, that The Chain Gang ran a full season of tours. And even that isn’t really true – we still need to wake-up our Italian…
Sabering In The Dordogne
Fun and Games in the Dordogne Back in 2019, I was introduced to the wonderful ‘sport’ (sic) of sabering by the Mercer Island chapter of The Chain Gang, particularly Bruce and Kim York, and their daughter Casey, my sabering gurus.…
A Bit Of Serendipity In Champagne.
I explained in a previous blog that we were forced to change our Champagne tour – and change it a lot – when France allowed a clown to buy a hotel North of Reims, and pretend to run it. In…
A New Photo Collection From Alsace.
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…
Changes To Our Champagne Tour
When I’m on our bike tours, you can imagine I get asked a lot of questions about how we design our tours – why we stay here, why we don’t visit there, etc. Occasionally, in my own mind, I’m reminded…
Champagne
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…
An Introduction To Champagne
Champagne – a region, and of course a world-famous wine. My view of champagne has been that you buy into the idea of a celebratory drink, or you don’t. The best champagnes are beautiful, and the history of the…
