Reading Room

Information to help you plan your walking, biking and hiking travels and to liven up your stay at home! Our Reading Room is a collection of travel journals, recipes, book reviews and essays from thirty-seven years of creating and leading bicycle and walking tours around the world. We have hundreds of articles and we add content continually and we are pleased to share out content. We only request you provide credit to ExperiencePlus! when you quote content from our site.

• Bicycle Advocacy

  ExperiencePlus! is more than just another bicycle touring company. We are committed to providing the best bicycling vacations anywhere and also to supporting bicycle advocacy and bicycle travel in our community. Our Founders, Rick and Paola Price, are active in bicycle programs here in Fort Collins, Colorado. We hope that our essays and news about bicycle advocacy will spark your fancy and motivate you to get involved in your own city – and of course to keep cycling!

• Book & Film Reviews

  Explore the history and geography of Tuscany and the Greek Islands. Learn about the cuisines of Europe, the wealth of Eleanor of Aquitaine, and more. By visiting our Reading Room collection of books, films and essays, you can experience these places and historic stories anytime, on the road or at home. Our Reading Room says a lot about ExperiencePlus! – and our customers. The folks who ride with us customers include some of the most interesting people on the planet. They are inquisitive, intelligent, and love to travel. When they are not traveling they enjoy reading about traveling. Our book reviews include travel narratives, history, geography, food, and modern best sellers. As we say, the next best thing to traveling – is reading about travel! So, click away and send us any good books or films you may have read or seen recently. We always value your input.

• Newsletters

• Recipes

  A taste for fabulous food runs in the ExperiencePlus! family. Paola's brother and father both owned restaurants, so we know how to find the best cuisine wherever we travel! On our tours we are always looking for memorable culinary experiences to provide our customers. That’s why so many of our tours include food-related activities and fantastic meals. We carefully chose and catalogued each savory experience on our tours – from your wine tasting in France to your visit to the Balsamic Vinegar cellar in Modena and your meal at a local Trattoria or Taberna. (Just to be sure we’d found the best meals for you, we tasted them all twice!) With ExperiencePlus! your culinary experiences don’t stop when you fly home. On a cold winter night – while you plan your next cycling trip – you’ll warm your heart and stir wonderful memories with a bowl of Aunt Angiolina’s classic bean soup, a super easy bruschetta, or breakfast of authentic crepes.

• Training/Fitness

  “It’s as easy a riding a bike…!” How often have you heard that? Sure, riding a bike down the road is easy, and most cyclists would rather work on fitness or explore the open road than spend time thinking about how to handle their bike. But the truth is that a little improvement in your skills can make riding easier, safer and a lot more fun. Developing your bike-handling skills will really pay off. And no matter how long you’ve been riding, the best time to start is right now. Check out our Training/Fitness section to find the right Joe Friel training program for you – so you can start preparing for your tour today!

• 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.

• Travel Tips

  Here you’ll find advice on finding the best airfares, European train schedules, and great travel websites including weather and climate information, hotels, rental cars and more. We’ve also included some tips regarding what to see in a few cities of interest, and we’ll continue to add to this collection. If you have a travel tip you think we should include, drop us an e-mail or call us. We’d love to hear your ideas.