If Wishes Were Horses
Cycling on the island of Corsica has been on my wish list for nearly a decade so when I learned that I would be traveling there in September to join ...
Travel Stories
These marvelous personal reports from the staff at ExperiencePlus! are loaded with insight from our tour leaders about the tours they lead. You’ll also find some entertaining travel journals written by our customers, in which they describe their adventures on tour.
A Taste of Aphrodisiac Diamonds on Tour
By ExperiencePlus! Tour Leader Pia de Richemont What did Marilyn Monroe, Mussolini and President Truman have in common? Fame? Certainly. Insomnia? Quite likely. But the three of them also sharedFull Story
Catalonia’s Costa Brava an Interview with Joan ...
We interviewed our Spanish country coordinator and tour leader Joan Escosura about something very close to his heart – ExperiencePlus!’ new cycling trip along Catalonia’s Costa Brava which he helped ...
Cyclist Seeks Puglian Cheese and Curious Cows
Selecting a bonus “theme” to take with me on my ExperiencePlus! cycling trips has always enhanced my excitement and sense of discovery about an area. When I found out I ...
Exploring Ireland By Bike
“Have you journaled today?” My mom’s frequent inquiry still rings in my mind, an question ingrained in my head that is now a part of every trip I take, no ...
Discover a Whole New Tuscany
We have a secret to share — there is a little corner of Tuscany that has remained undiscovered where the bicycling is fantastic, far gentler than in the rest of ...
Active Foodie Trips: Whole Journeys by Whole Foods Market
Join ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours and Whole Journeys – a division of Whole Foods Market® – on two new “Active Foodie” cycling adventures that explore local landscapes through activities like visiting ...
Bicycling the Italian Lakes
Several years ago a friend gave me a fridge magnet featuring the Madonna del Ghisallo – the Patron Saint of Bicyclist. I was thrilled and immediately affixed the magnet to ...
Corsica and the 2013 Tour de France
In July 2013 the Tour de France, and the rest of the world, will discover what ExperiencePlus! has known for years: that Corsica, the “Island of Beauty” as first described ...
Bicycling Bavaria’s Back Roads
Join ExperiencePlus! this summer to Bicycle Bavaria’s Back Roads and discover a wonderful mixture of history, and the fairy tale landscapes of the brothers Grimm. Today some of the best-preserved ...
Cycling and Sampling in Chile’s Wine Country
Chile’s central valley is home to many of Chile’s top wineries, nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains it’s the perfect climate for growing grapes. Landscapes are reminiscent ...
2013 Expeditions with ExperiencePlus!
ExpeditionPlus! trips feature exploration on a continental scale and are designed for experienced cyclists looking for a challenging adventure. ExperiencePlus! is offering two of our popular ExpeditionPlus! trips in 2013. On ...
Accommodations We Love – Part 7
If our itinerary descriptions have whetted your appetite and you’re starting to daydream, let us help you set the stage with these splendid backdrops. Proudly announcing Accommodations We Love Part ...
Chilean Village Highlights
The 2013 season in South America is now in close range especially as fall begins. For those of you who are looking to branch out, this is your opportunity to ...
Ready to Ride in 2013?
The ExperiencePlus! 2013 European Cycling Calendar has plenty of options. 2013 is going to be stellar for cycling in Europe as ExperiencePlus! has all of our classic itineraries and some exciting ...
40th Anniversary Bike Across Italy
By ExperiencePlus! traveler Tamsen Granger I just got back from the ExperiencePlus! 40th Anniversary Bike Across Italy Tour – Pisa to Venice- what a trip! It was 12 days of extraordinary ...
Camino de Santiago – Roncesvalles to Santiago
Guy Cunningham joined ExperiencePlus! on the June 1 – 15, 2012 departure of the Camino de Santiago – Roncesvalles to Santiago and fortunately for all of us he kept a ...
Cycling the Languedoc
From the moment I climbed on my bike and began pedaling through the streets in the heart of French villages, I was giddy—this is too cool. With sweeping panoramas, Cathar castles ...
My Trip of a Lifetime by Sally Miller
I just completed the trip of my lifetime which is more commonly known as Bicycling the Best of Provence Plus! and the Luberon and Aix tour with ExperiencePlus!. I was ...
A Healing Journey
By ExperiencePlus! Traveler Sally LaVenture Our dream had been to ride bikes through the Italian countryside on my 60th birthday. But life got in the way, or really I should say, ...
Latin America – Book Now and Save!
ExperiencePlus! has 8 bicycle tour itineraries in Latin America and here are just few of the many highlights that these trips have to offer. Join us this winter and enjoy ...
New Cycling Tours in Europe Coming in 2013
ExperiencePlus! is very pleased to announce four exciting bicycling opportunities for 2013. Sunny Catalonia Spain: Join us in northern Spain as we pedal through Catalonia and the Costa Brava. Our Plus! ...
que dia es hoy – patagonia
This month we’d like to share a very entertaining blog from Hess Kim who was on the December 10 – 20, 2011, Bicycling Patagonia’s Lake District Plus! the Island of ...
How I Bicycled Across Italy In 12 Days
By ExperiencePlus! traveler JR Meda June 11: My wife, Cheri and I had waited a year to finally fly from Denver to Frankfurt, Germany on the 1st segment of our dream ...
Cycling the Languedoc – Féria de Pentecôte
ExperiencePlus! has two brand new cycling options in the Languedoc region of southern France. Our inaugural tours May 27 – June 3, 2012 and the Plus! version which ends on ...
Adventures in Tuscany
June Wheeler and her partner Peter Herzog hail from the flatlands of Minnesota and completed their 7th ExperiencePlus! tour, Bicycling the Best of Southern Tuscany Plus! Florence in September 2011. ...
Simplicity In Italy
Photographer Rebecca Brown is not a cyclist, but was excited to accompany her dad on our 2011 Cycling Coastal Tuscany and made the most of her opportunity to capture the ...
Cycling Northern Argentina – Get Off the Beaten Path
Would you like to ride through multi-colored canyons, rich tropical and cloud forests, green valleys dotted with vineyards and estancias, across surreal salt flats, through mountain valleys? Northern Argentina has ...
40 Years of Travel and Cycling
As we celebrate the 40th Anniversary of our first tour across Italy back in 1972, we thought it a perfect time to look back at the ups and downs we’ve ...
Accommodations We Love – Part 3
Bicycling Chile’s Wine Country Plus! The Pacific Coast: In the Chilean hills with an expanse of vineyards in view sits Tabonko, a wine estate with rustic guest houses, which serves as ...
Accommodations We Love – Part 2
Cycling Piemonte Plus! Lago Maggiore: The 18th century Tenimento Castle in Piedmont sits amidst expansive grounds and the lovely green space invites you to relax and enjoy the spacious central courtyard. ...
Winter Tour Updates: Chile and Argentina
Although we may feel like we have perfected each and every tour itinerary we offer, over the years we’ve learned that more often than not they are a work in ...
Accommodations We Love – Part 1
ExperiencePlus! has added one more piece of information to our itineraries to enhance the fun and excitement of choosing your next bike trip – you can now check out the ...
Chiloé Island: A Cultural Oasis in Patagonia
Winter is just around the corner for all of us who live in North America, which means that summer is just around the corner in Patagonia’s Lakes District in Argentina ...
A Virtual Day on Tour in Costa Rica
As winter approaches we thought it a perfect time to inspire you with a virtual day tour through tropical Costa Rica. ExperiencePlus! has four tours and numerous departure dates to ...
Bicycling the Best of Provence
Just when you thought Provence couldn’t get any better ExperiencePlus! has combined two of our most popular tours in France to create one spectacular tour that has it all. Drawing ...
New Culinary and Cycling Tour in Italy
If we’ve learned one thing at ExperiencePlus! over the past forty years it is that our cyclists love to eat. So it was no surprise in 1991 when a group ...
Exciting Cycling Opportunities in the Italian Lakes
Tell your friends that you are going bicycling in the “Lake District” and most of them will think of England and the romantic English poets like Coleridge and Wordsworth. But ...
New in France – Cycling the Languedoc
Cycling the Languedoc (Plus! French Catalonia) With a variety of landscapes bathed by the Mediterranean sun and connected with a vast network of small country roads that extend from the sea ...
Discover Fairytale Landscapes Cycling the Czech Republic
You can count on the fact that every ExperiencePlus! bicycle tour will feature great cycling, so if someone asks me what differentiates one trip from another I immediately think of ...
Four Favorite Tour Leaders
With the announcement of our 40th Anniversary Bike Across Italy trip we thought it the perfect time to feature a few of the tour leaders who have been with us ...
40th Anniversary Bicycle Tour of Italy
Back in 1972 ExperiencePlus! offered the first-ever commercial bicycle tour in Italy and on June 6 – 17, 2012 we invite you to help us celebrate our 40-year anniversary with ...
Bicycling Scotland’s Highlands
The cat is out of the bag, we have another new favorite cycling destination—Scotland. I was fortunate enough to join the inaugural group on our 11-day Bicycling Scotland’s Highlands Coast ...
Le Quatorze Juillet or Bastille Day
By ExperiencePlus! Tour Leader, Marie Lavigne. Bastille Day or le quatorze juillet (14th of July) is the French national holiday, very similar to Independence Day, or the 4th of July, in ...
Bicycling Belgium’s Best Breweries
ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours is teaming up for a VIP biking tour of Belgium with Jeff Lebesch, founder and former owner of New Belgium Brewing, also from Fort Collins, Colo. Lebesch ...
Four Leaders You’ll Want to Follow
Daniele Binaghi has been leading tours in Italy with ExperiencePlus! since 2009 and has quickly become a crowd favorite. Though there is stiff competition, his staff photo is our favorite ...
Italy 150 Update – Photos and News from the Road
As the Italy 150 Expedition drew to a close we heard a few snippets from the cyclists on the road. Mostly that this was a true trip of a lifetime ...
Introducing New Staff and Tour Leaders
A New Face in the U.S. Office: ExperiencePlus! is very pleased to introduce you to our new Reservations and Sales Associate Jo Baldwin. You will get to know Jo well because ...
Italy 150 Tour – Day 2 photos
We’re on day 5 of our Italy 150 trip – 27 cyclists riding from Sicily to Turin, Piedmont. Although wifi has been spotty we have a few updates from Robin ...
Owners recognized as Top Guides in the World
We are very proud to be featured in National Geographic Traveler Magazine’s “50 Tours of a Lifetime” issue for both ExperiencePlus!’s itineraries and tour guides. Our Bicycling the Danube Plus! ...
Bicycling Italy’s Veneto and the Dolomites – ...
Each year at least one or two of our travelers registers for a bicycling trip that they’ve done previously. With so many places in the world to bicycle, we wonder, ...
“50 Tours of a Lifetime” – The Danube
National Geographic Traveler has honored ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours once again by naming our Bicycling the Danube from Germany to Vienna Plus! Hungary tour as one of “50 Tours of a ...
The Geography of Uniting Italy: 1860 through 1871
As we prepare to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification by bicycling from Marsala, Sicily to Turin in Italy’s Piedmont, the actual 15oth anniversary came and went on March ...
2010 Blog Bicycling Classical Greece
In October of 2010 June Wheeler and her partner Peter Herzog joined ExperiencePlus! to Bicycle Across Classical Greece from Athens to Olympia. June kept a blog with wonderful stories and ...
Patagonia Day 9 – 10 Chiloe Island
After our penguin viewing, seafood eating transfer to Chiloé, we had high expectations for our time near Castro. Unlike some hotels that claim to be “on the water”, Palafito definitely ...
Patagonia day 8: transfer to Chiloe Island
After our night in Petrohue, it was time to bid goodbye to two cyclists and a guide. Doug left to spend a few days in Santiago before he’ll return to ...
Patagonia day 7: Pedaling Through the Reserva Nacional ...
A few changes to today’s itinerary were announced yesterday. Maria Elena and the tour leaders suggested a 33km (66km total) out-and-back ride through the Reserva Nacional Llanquihue beside the Petrohue ...
Patagonia day 6: Morning Trip to Puerto Montt and Canyoning
Yesterday we had a break from biking – and from packing our bags and moving to a different town and hotel again. Javier and Tristan offered to take the group ...
Patagonia day 5: Puerto Octay to Puerto Varas
I woke up in the middle of the night to a banging sound. I had left the shutters open in the bathroom to get a little air flow through the ...
Birth of an ExpeditionPlus! Bicycle Trip Across Europe
For a geographer maps are like crystal balls: look deeply into a map and you can see the past. Gaze at it long enough and you can see the future. ...
Interview with Chef Erick Vedel
Photo Daniele Voirin A local Provençal chef tells us about his passion for food and how it has pervaded other areas of his life. Each year he opens his home to ...
Per la Cena or What’s for Dinner?
An interview with Bea Tassinari who coordinates meals on ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours in Italy. Bea can you tell us a little about the process of deciding what’s for dinner on a ...
Patagonia day 4: Termas de Puyehue to Lago Llanquihue
Today we arrived in Puerto Octay on Lago Llanquihue in the Chilean Lake District. A little tired from yesterday’s ride, we got a late start from Termas de Puyehue. My ...
Patagonia day 3: Crossing the Border: Cardenal Samore Pass
Day 3: Crossing to Chile was the longest and the hardest day of riding. It was also the day with the most bureaucracy because we left Argentina and entered Chile. ...
Patagonia Day 2: Scenic Ride from Bariloche to Villa la ...
Last night was officially the first day of the tour. After meeting M.E. and the tour leaders Javier and Tristan at the bike shop, Dirty Bikes for the bike fitting, ...
Patagonia with ExperiencePlus!
I want to introduce myself – my name is Lindsay Brust. I am an ameteur (albeit enthusiastic) runner and biker living in Boulder, CO. I had the pleasure of getting to ...
Bicycling the Mediterranean: Corsica and Sardinia
The Mediterranean is one of the world’s most attractive vacation destinations, and its islands are renowned to be amongst the finest bicycling locations on the planet. In fact two of ...
Why I Bike: Episode 10
Jerry and Dick Smallwood (ExperiencePlus! Customers and Tandem Riders Extraordinare) Riding a bicycle through a countryside that is completely new to you is a strange and wonderful experience. Everything is fresh ...
Bicycling Chile’s Wine Country (Plus! the Pacific Coast)
Recently mentioned in National Geographic, the Maule and Colchagua wine valleys of central Chile are a must-see for both adventurers and foodies—and what better way to make the trek than ...
Bicycling the Best of Southern Tuscany Plus …
Wanting to share some of the best of Italy, the ExperiencePlus! Italian tour leaders and I desired to develop a cycling tour that would combine the most exciting areas of ...
Bicycling Scotland’s Highlands Plus – the Isle ...
ExperiencePlus!’s bicycling trip across Scotland was born of customer requests to offer a cycling itinerary in the United Kingdom, and what an option this Coast to Coast trip is! Scotland ...
Bicycling Alsace – The Inaugural Journey
After the Cycling the Vineyards of Alsace trip debut in July 2010, cyclists proclaimed that the tour had earned itself an instant place on their “best trips ever” lists because ...
The Italia 150 ExpeditionPlus! Bicycle Ride
Covers the Length of Italy While Italians may continue to bicker over whether Giuseppe Garibaldi made a huge mistake 150 years ago in uniting the South of Italy with the North, ...
Why I Bike: Episode 6
Customer Sherry Walker: I ride so I can eat and still fit into my clothes. I go on bicycling trips to eat, my husband, Scott, goes to ride. Actually, if you are ...
Bicycling Vacations: Stress Free Fun For Friends and Family
We at ExperiencePlus! have noticed an interesting trend amongst our travelers: more and more folks are inviting friends and family to join them on their bicycling vacation. These groups come ...
Why I Bike: Episode 9
Becca Austin (ExperiencePlus! Customer) My ride to work yesterday was so fulfilling (in more ways than one – there were 7 Bike to Work Breakfast Stations along my route) that I ...
Tales from the Road: Costa Rica
At ExperiencePlus! we believe that a bicycle tour should allow you the freedom to travel at your own pace and the opportunity to experience another environment and culture in your ...
Adventures in Passport Renewal
By ExperiencePlus! Customer Steve Johnson Wednesday, September 1, 2010 8 PM With less than 24 hours until a scheduled departure to join one of ExperiencePlus! partner tours (TourzPlus!) to bicycle in Croatia, ...
Why I Bike: Episode 8
Scott Cooley (ExperiencePlus! Customer) It makes me feel like a kid again. Remember what it was like when you first learned to ride a bike? It wasn’t only about expanding the ...
Chile: A New Destination with a Familiar Twist
In October 2009 I was fortunate enough to head south and help lead our inaugural bicycle tour through Chile’s wine country. ExperiencePlus! is proud to be one of the first ...
Why I Bike: Episode 7
Dave Forester (ExperiencePlus! Customer): Given my poor golf scores, it is a better use of my time to spend a few hours biking the local byways than searching for small white ...
National Geographic Tour of a Lifetime
ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours is very proud to announce that our bicycle tour: Cycling the Camino de Santiago: Roncesvalles to Santiago in Spain has been recognized as one of National Geographic ...
Bicycle through History in Sicily in Preparation for ...
Sicily looms large in the minds of Americans when they think of Italy because this, the largest island in the Mediterranean region, sent something like a million and a half ...
Keep Your Sunscreen Out This Winter
Join ExperiencePlus! in Costa Rica Now is the time to plan your escape from cold winter temperatures that are, unfortunately, lurking just around the corner. Costa Rica offers you sunshine, great ...
A Brief Introduction to the Highlights of Alsace
Alsace is arguably the most unique region of France. As a place that has changed hands five times between France and Germany over the last 150 years, it is now ...
Discovering Northern Argentina with Javier Lardone
When I was asked to write about our Discover Northern Argentina bike tours, the first thing that came to my mind was: how do I begin to describe this place? ...
ExperiencePlus! Partners with Lonely Planet Italy
ExperiencePlus! Partners with Lonely Planet Guidebooks and Europ-Assistance By Rick Price, Ph.D. Lonely Planet has replaced Baedeker and Frommer (Europe on $5/Day) as one of THE premier guidebook publishers of the 21st ...
Cycling and Eating through the Piedmont Region of Italy
When people ask me what my favorite bike tour in Italy is, I always say Venice to Florence or Venice to Pisa because I think it is such a great ...
ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours and Bicycles 4 Humanity
New Partnership Brings Mobility to Africa In Africa, girls are 70 percent more likely to attend school if their family owns a bike. Healthcare workers can visit up to four times ...
Why I Bike – Episode 1
ExperiencePlus! employees are passionate about bicycling so we thought we’d query them and find out exactly why they ride. Our first responses come from owners, Maria Elena and Monica. If ...
Reflections on Monica and Michele’s Big Fat Italian ...
by Maria Elena Malpezzi-Price True to form, Monica and Michele’s wedding had what one would expect from a multinational, multicultural Malpezzi-Price family event. Bicycles (of all sort), people (from all corners ...
Why I Bike: Episode 4
Bill Giovinazzo: Why do I ride? Actually, when my son was born I had always hoped that I could do something “epic” with him. That he and I could do something ...
Why I Bike Episode 3
Igor Baccini – ExperiencePlus! Bike Fleet Manager, and Tour Leader: Such a simple question, so many answers. It’s banal to say “I bike because I like it” but it’s the first thing ...
Why I Bike Episode 5
Why I Bike – Episode 5 (from our staff and tour leaders) Andro Tartaglia – ExperiencePlus! Tour Leader Croatia I enjoy riding my mountain bike in remote and quite places. It gives me ...
Why I Bike Episode 2
Customer Joni Heath is joining ExperiencePlus! to Chase Lance in the Pyrenees in the summer of 2010. Here’s her response to why she rides a bike: I thought of this question ...
Patagonia – A Tour Leader’s …
As an Argentine-American who has spent life moving around the world since childhood, I am fortunate to say that I live in a truly marvelous part of the world. Bariloche, ...
Italian Cycling Culture
Italian Cycling Culture by Sylva Florence So, you’re planning a trip to Italy. A friend suggested riding bikes would ...
ExpeditionPlus! Bicycle Tours in 2010
ExpeditionPlus! in 2010 ExperiencePlus! announces dates ...
Italy’s Spectacular Dolomite Mountains
ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours is bringing back one of our favorite tours in 2010, Bicycling Venice and the Dolomites. This northern Italian mountain range offers some of the most dramatic scenery we’ve ...
Provence: Ruins, History, Artists, Authors, Wine, Culinary ...
Provence: Ruins, History, Artists, Authors, Wine, Culinary and Cycling Delights If you’ve dreamed of bicycling through Provence we have three opportunities for you this fall; our Cycling Provence, Cycling Provence Plus! ...
Bicycling Chile’s Wine Country
Over the years, Chile has built a reputation of development, production and exportation of fine wines. Yet it is uncommon to hear about the fertile lands where these fine grapes ...
A Day at the “Farm” the ExperiencePlus! ...
by Sylva Florence Aperitivo: espresso. Someone – half awake – spilled espresso grounds everywhere. Waking up just like the rest of us, the little black espresso machine groans and sprays a fine ...
Costa Rica Has A New Tour, Improved Roads and Coming in ...
Costa Rica Has A New Tour, Improved Roads and Coming in November of 2009, Hybrid Bicycles Mario Cordero, who ...
Snoretories (Translated from “Chorizos, Sirenen und ...
Snoretories (Translated from “Chorizos, Sirenen und Wilde Gänse” by Jochen Mangelsen and Philipp Alexander Schmitt) Philipp Alexander Schmitt ...
A Taste of Patagonia: Notes from a Biker’s Journal ...
A Taste of Patagonia: Notes from a Biker’s Journal by Linda Hayek ...
Bicycling through Social and Economic Change in Poland, ...
Bicycling through Social and Economic Change in Poland, Slovakia & Hungary ...
Bicycle Turkey – A Land Bridge from Asia
Bicycle Turkey – A Land Bridge from Asia by Rick Price ...
ExperiencePlus! Staff Recommended Gift List
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Argentina and Chile Slideshows
They say pictures are worth 1000 words . . .as you dream of sunny places this year imagine riding through the colorful mountains of Northern Argentina ...
ExpeditionPlus! in South America with Monica and Michele
Monica Malpezzi Price and ...
Winter’s Finest Attributes: Snow, Slush, Shoveling
Costa Rica’s Butterflies, Bicycles and Beaches The Choice is Yours: Butterflies, Bicycles and Beaches OR Snow, Slush and ...
Cycling through Chile’s Wine Country
As a geographer I am fascinated with the spread of European culture and landscapes in the new world, especially the landscapes of wine. And as a specialist in Mediterranean geography I ...
Part 2: In Praise of Bicycling and Women
Part 2: In Praise of Bicycling and Women by Nineteenth-Century American Women: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Frances Willard Part 1 Of this two part series can be found ...
Bicycle Travel in Greece and Turkey
width=”100%” cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″ summary=”"> Bicycle Travel in Greece and Turkey If, as Pico Iyer wrote "we travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves," there is no ...
In Praise of Bicycling and Women by Nineteenth-Century ...
In Praise of Bicycling and Women by Nineteenth-Century American Women: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Frances Willard “The world is our great book of beauty and romance, and on your cycle you ...
Family Adventures in Wonderland
Family Adventures in Wonderland A bicycle or multisport tour in Costa Rica is just the thing to get you ...
Beavers, Nabokov and Great Tour Leaders
Beavers, Nabokov and Great Tour Leaders ...
Discovering Argentina & Chile
Discovering Argentina & Chile by Bicycle ...
Expeditions in Two Hemispheres
Bicycle Expeditions in Two Hemispheres ...
Bicycle Touring “a la Carte”
Bicycle Touring "a la Carte" If you’d like to ride your bike in the hills of Tuscany, ...
Two Epic Bike Journeys
Spain’s Camino de Santiago & Annie Londonderry’s 1894/95 Bicycle Ride Through France: Two Epic Journeys with ExperiencePlus! ...
Three of the Many Faces of Italy
Three of the Many Faces of Italy Bicycle Tours through Tuscany, the Po Valley and Puglia Even the briefest glance ...
Cycling the Danube – Europe’s Longest River
Cycling the Danube This month we are featuring our inaugural ExpeditionPlus! tours along the famous Danube River. Bicycle the entire length of the Danube, from Germany’s Black Forest to the delta in ...
History and Geography of the Danube River
By Rick Price, Ph.D. You probably learned in 7th grade geography that the three most important rivers of Europe are the Rhine, the Rhone, and the Danube – but that is ...
Island Tours: Sicily, Corsica & Greece
Touring the Mediterranean Islands Sicily, Corsica and Greece ...
Helping with the Olive Harvest
Helping with the Olive Harvest What do ...
Rick’s First Bicycle Ride
Bicycling: My First Bicycle Ride by Rick Price How many of you remember learning to ride a bike? How about ...
Fifteen Years of Costa Rica
Fifteen Years of Costa Rica My how time flies. This is our 15th year operating tours in Costa Rica, so maybe it’s time for a little reflection. I quit my ...
Spring Train in Europe’s Stunning Countryside
Spring Train in Europe’s Countryside Pedal up Mount Venoux or through the beautiful hills of Assisi ...
Bicycling Italy with Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Bicycling Italy with Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell: The Earliest American Bicycle Tourists in Italy in 1884? ...
Announcing the Arrival of the 2008 ExperiencePlus! Catalog!
Announcing the Arrival of the 2008 ExperiencePlus! Catalog! Which tour will you feature this year? Our 2008 catalog is hot off the press and on its way to you. We’ve packed it ...
Patagonia, With Gears to Spare!
Patagonia, With Gears to Spare! “It’s the freakin’ Andes, Jim!” Jim and I had been leap-frogging for the first part of the day—I’d stop to take photos and he’d pass me, ...
Routes on the Open Road
Routes on the Open Road Dare Yourself to Ride Across South America The saying goes, “It’s the journey, not ...
Cataclysms, Cliffs, and Canyons
Cataclysms, Cliffs, and Canyons Most anywhere you travel, you’ll find scenic attractions and interesting landscapes. But unless you’ve ...
Emilia Romagna at 19 Km Per Hour
Emilia Romagna at 19 Km Per Hour Since coming home last month (May 2007) from the Venice to Pisa ride with ExperiencePlus!, I’ve been telling all my friends it was the ...
The Shapes of Puglia
width=”100%” cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″ summary=”"> The Shapes of Puglia Some of us might not be able to point out every European country on a map, but Italy’s distinctive contours make it ...
History, Romance, Revenge: The Loire Valley has it All
History, Romance, Revenge: The Loire Valley has it All As one former participant on our Bicycling the Castles of the Loire Valley tour said, “the scenery was gorgeous—sunflowers, wheat fields, ...
Bicycling Turkey – A Bridge to the Ancient World
Bicycling Turkey – A Bridge to the Ancient World No other tour offered by ExperiencePlus! provides the wealth of classical history that this tour does. Add excellent food gathered among ...
From the Road: New Zealand – Bicycling the South ...
New Zealand – Bicycling the South Island A Bike Tour Review by Annie Apgar of ExperiencePlus! If anyone had told ...
Date With the Devil Down Under! – Julie Tours ...
Date With the Devil Down Under! The first thing that comes to mind when you mention Tasmania ...
Friendly Kilometers: Active Travel with Friends
Friendly Kilometers: Active Travel with Friends Vacation travel with family or friends appeals to our sense of balance ...
Julie Horton Tours Greece
Travel means adapting quickly to change ...
Turkey on the Eastern Horizon
Turkey on the Eastern Horizon (A reflective essay by Rick Price, Ph.D., owner of ExperiencePlus!.) Rick will accompany our new ...
A Cycling Journal From Eastern Europe
A Cycling Journal From Eastern Europe Customer Carol Waaser of the New York Cycle Club recounted her Eastern European ...
Tour Report: Cycling Andalucia
Tour Report: Cycling Andalucia The Cycling Andalucia tour offers days of riding in wide open spaces, climbs to villages in the hills of the Sierra Mountains, near traffic-free roads through olive ...
Hiking Utah’s Arches and Canyonlands National Parks
Hiking Utah’s Arches and Canyonlands National Parks Hiking Utah’s Arches and Canyonlands National Parks – May 2006 It seems like only yesterday since I returned from leading our hiking tour in ...
Renaissance Cuisine in France and Italy
Renaissance Cuisine in France and Italy Italy’s Tuscany and France’s Loire Valley don’t have much in common as far ...
Bicycling Burgundy – it’s not about the wine ...
Bicycling Burgundy – it’s not about the wine – its about the cycling, history and friends Is there more ...
Living Art History on the Camino de Santiago
Living Art History on the Camino de Santiago On tour, topics at dinner vary between talking about the day’s ...
Learning to See
Learning to See Whether pedaling through the countryside on a bicycle or walking a trail in a natural area, ...
“Merci Beau Coup” Means “Thank You” ...
“Merci Beau Coup” Means “Thank You” in Italian, Too The clear morning followed a special evening for our group ...
My Six pilgrimages to Spain and France
My Six pilgrimages to Spain and France My husband Eric and I joined the Pamplona to Pyrenees Tour in July 2005. Our trip was a multitude of heroic pilgrimages: A cyclist’s pilgrimage ...
Why Women-Only Tours?
Why Women-Only Tours? There’s no need to further the discussion of the physical and physiological differences of the sexes, ...
Hannibal & the ExperiencePlus! European Headquarters
Hannibal & the ExperiencePlus! European Headquarters Understanding the Italian Landscape ExperiencePlus! Bicycle and Walking tours has its European headquarters on a farm in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy’s Po Valley, one ...
From the Road: Bicycling Umbria
From the Road: Bicycling Umbria I just returned to Colorado from Italy, where I participated on the September ...
A Brief History and Geography of The Race
A Brief History and Geography of The Race The first Race in 1903 had only six stages but they ...
Experiencing Brittany by Bicycle
Experiencing Brittany by Bicycle by Jonathan Hancock, ExperiencePlus! Tour Leader in France I’m very excited to be able to share ...
How ExperiencePlus customers met Aldo Ronconi, 1947 TdF ...
How ExperiencePlus customers met Aldo Ronconi, 1947 TdF Stage Winner, in a Bike Shop in Faenza, Italy Dear Rick, I happened to read the ExperiencePlus! newsletter and your review of the book ...
Bike Tour Renews Family Spirit
Bike Tour Renews Family Spirit ExperiencePlus! Computer Specialist, Ian Wells took his family on their first ever bicycle tour with ExperiencePlus! last June. Since they weren’t exactly experienced cyclists, some ...
How We Saw Lance on the Alpe d’Huez
How We Saw Lance on the Alpe d’Huez by Rick Price ...
Dave sees Lance Win 6 in a Row! Race 2004 Customer Report
Dave sees Lance Win 6 in a Row ! Race 2004 Customer Report Bike Trip to Race 2004 ...
Savoring Provence
Savoring Provence Sabrina Moriconi, Tour Leader for ExperiencePlus!, guides us on the Walking Van Gogh’s Provence tour Sometimes I wonder what it is that ties me to France. My father is Italian ...
Bicycling Through Classical Greece
Bicycling Through Classical Greece A Bike Tour Review by ExperiencePlus! Tour Leaders Patricia and Manolis Hajifotiou When ExperiencePlus! owners Rick ...
History and Geography of the Olympic Games in Ancient ...
History and Geography of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece The games honored Zeus, supreme god of all the ...
History and Geography of the Camino de Santiago in Spain
History and Geography of the Camino de Santiago in Spain The Camino de Santiago (or the Saint James Way ...
Bicycling Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna
Bicycling Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna A Bike Tour Review by Claudio Strocchi of ExperiencePlus! There is a famous saying in Italian: ...
Tour Down Under
Tour Down Under Thirteen hours and twenty minutes is a long time to hang in the sky from Los ...
Why not a Custom or Private Tour?
Why not a Custom or Private Tour? We annually design and operate dozens of private or customized tours for ...
Warblers Wintering in Costa Rica
Warblers Wintering in Costa Rica It’s not clear how many birds migrate to Central and South America every year. ...
How Bike Across Italy Began in 1972
How Bike Across Italy Began in 1972 To celebrate Paola’s graduation from the University of Pisa in July ...
Bicycling Costa Rica
Bicycling Costa Rica I had the good fortune of finding myself in Costa Rica this past February participating on ...
History and Geography of the French and Italian Riviera
History and Geography of the French and Italian Riviera Our book review this month is an essay on the ...
Cycling Southern Italy and Puglia
Cycling Southern Italy and Puglia Fifteen years ago Paola and I led each of the five tours we offered ...
Greek Islands: History and Geography
Greek Islands: History and Geography The discussion of the geography of the Greek Islands naturally begins with a discussion of Europe as a subcontinent of the Eurasian continent. In fact, Europe ...
Bicycling the Heart of Provence in France
Bicycling the Heart of Provence in France John Giebler, ExperiencePlus! France Country Coordinator, talks about our Heart of ...
Tuscany: An Introduction to the History and Geography
Tuscany: An Introduction to the History and Geography During the last thirty-five years of exploring the world, I’ve ...
Bicycling Tuscany
Bicycling Tuscany A Bike Tour Review by James Pippin A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of bicycling ...
Bicycling Ireland
Bicycling Ireland A Bike Tour Review by Jan Rastall of ExperiencePlus! May the road rise up to meet you. May ...
The Dordogne River Valley: Paola’s Travels with the ...
The Dordogne River Valley: Paola’s Travels with the Queen of France by Paola Malpezzi-Price The Dordogne River Valley is part ...
Greece: Travels with Benjamin, the Donkey
Greece: Travels with Benjamin, the Donkey By Rick Price, owner of ExperiencePlus! We bought Benjamin from a gypsy in a little village near Kalamata. Yes, Kalamata of olive fame in the southern ...
