TUSCANY Back in September, my good friend Mike Pattenden joined The Chain Gang in Italy for a month to help out with, well, with everything. By profession Mike’s a journalist, so inevitably he wrote a short piece for us about…
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…
For many years, The Chain Gang have been regular visitors to the Pont du Gard, the spectacular Roman aqueduct near Uzes in the Languedoc. But, in 2018 we decided to design a new tour of the Languedoc, so inevitably the…
As ever, our new season is suddenly a whole lot closer than it was. We start our group tours on June 3rd in Normandy. But that tour is full, I’m afraid. But also in June we have tours of Alsace,…
I remember my surprise – my very pleasant surprise – when I learned that John F Kennedy not only enjoyed cycling, but had said “nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike”. I’d like to think that in…
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…
I was Inspired by a TV cooking series to offer three copies of this book. Last month sometime I was sent a link to a cookery programme about the Dordogne. It was brilliant, and it turns out the programme was…
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…
… Tuesday. The 5th in my series of posts about my favourite day on each of our tours. Our Dordogne tour is where this idea started. Talking to one of our guides, Pete, I asked how the week was…
