What's New?

ExperiencePlus! Guarantees 2008 Prices April 14, 2008 - ExperiencePlus! is pleased to announce that our 2008 prices are guaranteed not to change despite the dollar-Euro exchange rate. Read more about how to save money on a European bike tour this summer! Cost Comparison: Philly -vs- Florence April 10, 2008 - Our friends at Doorways recently compiled a table comparing everyday costs in Philadelphia and Florence - with some surprising results. Dollar doldrums got you down? April 6, 2008 - Dollar doldrums got you down? Here are some ways to save on your bicycle vacation this summer.

Discover a Better Kind of Travel on Our Bicycle Tours

Bicycling is one of the best ways to explore the world.  We know because we’ve been bicycle touring for almost forty years.  ExperiencePlus! now offers bicycle tours in over twenty countries. 

Our bicycle trips in France and Italy, our "home-away-from-home," are still the most popular.  But we’ve expanded bike touring to Eastern Europe, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam and the U.S. in addition to some of our other favorites like Spain, Greece, and Costa Rica.

Using our signature "chalk arrow" navigation system, you’ll bicycle on quiet country roads. You’ll stay in small, family-run inns in the heart of town. From Tuscany to Provence, from Istanbul to the Chilean island of Chiloé, come and experience local village life firsthand.

To see the world with us, you don’t have to be an athlete or a racer! All you need is curiosity, and a willingness to experience the world in a new way. We have bicycle tours for all ages and abilities, from beginners to long-distance explorers. We welcome couples, groups, singles and families with kids - anyone with a spirit of adventure!

If you love bicycling, fabulous food, laughter, and the thought of traveling with some of the most fascinating people on the planet, ExperiencePlus! is your gateway to a lifetime of discovery. You’ll find a wealth of resources right here on our website to help you prepare for your trip.

So come on in and explore a little, then send us an email or give us a call the old-fashioned way. We’d love to get acquainted and help you choose your next adventure.

-Rick Price and Paola Malpezzi Price

Greece: Bike, Walk and Cruise - May 29 to June 6, 2008

Rick and Paola will both accompany this trip.  Who says you can’t have it all? Walk on Delos, the sacred island where Apollo was born and one of three of the most important archeological sites in Greece (with Delphi and Olympia).   Cruise on a private yacht to the jet-set island of Mykonos, sail into the collapsed volcanic crater of Santorini and walk the most spectacular walk in the Mediterranean basin along the ridge of this ancient island. Wonderful bike rides on Naxos and Paros for the cyclists.

Germany:  Bicycling the Danube from Germany's Black Forest to Budapest (Danube ExpeditionPlus! Stage 1) - June 26 to July 11, 2008

Rick will lead the first two weeks of our inaugural Danube River ExpeditionPlus!  from Germany’s Black Forest to Budapest, Hungary.  He promises not to tell you too many stories of his days as an AFS Exchange Student in Germany’s Black Forest in 1966 (was that really 42 years ago!?)  One of Europe’s classic bicycle tours, we’ll explore every Medieval and Renaissance town from Donaueschingen to Vienna and Budapest.  Each stage is priced at $6150 per person, if you do the entire journey you’ll save $1500 and pay only $10,800! 

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Dates don’t work for you?  Looking for additional tours?  Take a look at our Tour Finder OR call us today at 1-800-685-4565.

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New in this month's Rambler Newsletter:

Tour Spotlight:

Two Epic Journeys by Bike

Our featured tours this month follow two very different historic routes nearly the whole way across Spain and France:

The Camino de Santiago crosses northern Spain from near the French border to the Compostella on the west coast, following a route that dates back almost to the time of Charlemagne.

Our other feature follows the historic route of the first woman to bicycle around the world over a century ago.  We'll retrace her first European segment,  from Paris to Marseille, France.

Read more about these two very different historic journeys here.

Reviews:

War in the Val d'Orcia by Iris Origo

This month, Rick reviews a memoir from an American expatriate living in southern Tuscany during World War Two:

From her vantage point in Southern Tuscany Iris Origo stole a little time almost every day to write her descriptions of what was happening around her. Her entries are precise, concise, wonderfully descriptive of daily life and often speculative when news was hard to get.

Read more of Rick's review of War in the Val d'Orcia here.