Highlights & Stories
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Croatia / Highlights & Stories / Portugal / Slovenia / Spain
Top 5 back-to-back tours
We love the idea of making the most of your time and resources in Europe by combining tours in the same or different countries. Back-to-back tours also can help you ‘train your way’ into a harder tour by going on… Read full article
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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 a cultural crossroads where French finesse meets German gusto. Tucked… Read full article
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Austria / Belgium / Croatia / Featured / France / Highlights & Stories / Italy / Netherlands / Portugal
Top 10 bike tours for families
Start a new tradition ExperiencePlus! has led every possible combination of grandparent, parent, child, uncle, sister in-law, and friend group on a vast array of private, custom and regularly published departures in Europe and South America since 1972. As a… Read full article
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First bike tour renews family’s spirit
A number of years ago, former ExperiencePlus! employee Ian Wells took part of his family on their first-ever EP bicycle tour. They weren’t experienced cyclists and some members of the family were apprehensive about the adventure. Ian documented the trip… Read full article
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Corsica Calling
ExperiencePlus! has led bicycle tours on the Mediterranean island of Corsica for 20 years. Home to unforgettable cycling, wild boar, chestnuts, oysters, 8,000-plus foot mountains, pristine beaches, and – don’t forget – Napoleon, Corsica is a must-experience destination that will… Read full article
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Bike and Boat Details for Greece Dodecanese Islands
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Finding the Plus! on her First-ever Bike Tour
Those of us who love bicycle touring know that our reasons for doing so are as varied as the places we choose to explore. But making a decision on where to take your first tour can be overwhelming. For Allison… Read full article
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Fifteen and Counting. . .
In 2022, ExperiencePlus! celebrates 50 years of guiding award-winning bicycle tours throughout Europe and beyond. Customer referrals and repeat travelers have helped us build a company that is recognized for its kind and professional tour leaders, carefully curated itineraries, and… Read full article
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Explorer Primer Part 3: Getting Started – The Ride
In the Explorer Primer Part 1 we reviewed the type of roads you can expect to find on an ExperiencePlus! Explorer tour as well as the bicycles we provide. Primer Part 2 discussed how to outfit yourself with a gravel… Read full article
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Celebrating the Camino de Santiago
Note: Our 50th year celebration includes a special tribute to three Classic ExperiencePlus! tours: Bike Across Italy, Best of Provence, and Cycling the Camino de Santiago. We selected these tours for what they represent, where they are located, and why they… Read full article
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Explorer Primer Part 2: Getting Started – the Bike
In the Explorer Primer Part 1 we reviewed the type of roads you can expect to find on an ExperiencePlus! Explorer tour as well as the bicycles we provide. As we discussed in Part 1, being comfortable riding “off road” –… Read full article
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Germany / Highlights & Stories
Oberammergau Passion Play in 2022
An Alpine Village’s Tribute after Overcoming Historic Hardship Legends and Oaths The year is 1633 and we are in the Bavarian village of Oberammergau (say: ober-ammer-gow), some 62 miles (100 km) south of Munich nestled below the dramatic alpine panorama… Read full article
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France / Highlights & Stories / Italy / Spain
Celebrating 3 Classic ExperiencePlus! Tours
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Highlights & Stories / Poland Slovakia Hungary
Krakow to Budapest: An Unforgettable Journey in Four Stanzas
I have fallen in love with a bicycle tour I have yet to take. It begins in a country whose people became the victim of tasteless jokes about their supposed lack of common sense and ends along the banks of… Read full article
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Croatia / Highlights & Stories / Portugal
Explorer Primer Part 1: Time for European Dirt
One of the highlights of the upcoming 2022 cycling season is that we will finally – finally!!! – launch our new Explorer Tours in Portugal’s Algarve and Croatia’s Istrian Peninsula. If you’re booked on one of these tours, or curious… Read full article
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Argentina / Chile / Highlights & Stories
Seek Out South America’s Astronomical Advantage
If winter weather makes you grumpy because you can’t ride your bike as often as you would like (if at all), you are in fine astronomical luck! It’s always summer somewhere, right?! While we fight the winter’s freezing embrace, our… Read full article
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Travel with Friends
One of the greatest joys of traveling by bike is not only making friends along the way, but having those friends turn into lifelong travel companions. Many an EP tour is composed of folks who fit this description. Some prefer… Read full article
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Bike and Barge the Seine Plus! Castles of the Loire Valley
Bike and Barge the Seine Plus! Castles of the Loire is a level 1 tour, ideal for beginner cyclists, those traveling by bicycle for the first time, or multi-generational groups with a desire for a nice and easy bike tour… Read full article