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Back and Better Than Ever: Cycling Italy’s Dolomites
Italy’s Dolomites are Calling 6 Reasons You Should Answer Trying to decide where to ride next year? We have got a few reasons for you to consider fine-tuning your photography… Read More »
Destinations: Italy, Recipes
Recipe: Insalata Di Farro (Cold Farro Salad)
Umbria’s Great Grain A versatile and easy addition to summer meals. Walk through a farmers market in Italy and you’ll experience the country’s deeply rooted passion for fresh food. Noses... Read More »
About ExperiencePlus!, Destinations: Italy
The Surprising Life of Tour Leader Gabriele Monaco
Gabriele Monaco – Film Maker, Tour Leader, History Buff Q & A with Gabriele about his film Valetti – The Forgotten Hero When Gabriele Monaco isn’t leading ExperiencePlus! bicycle tours... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
Walk On The Water – Christo’s “Floating Piers”
“Walk On The Water” Of Lake Iseo This Summer Visit Christo’s “Floating Piers” In The Italian Lakes District This summer, from June 18 to July 3, 2016, internationally-renowned environmental artist Christo will... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
The Secrets of Mantua by Enrico Dal Monte
There are many splendid and evocative places in Italy as authors from all over the world have described throughout the centuries. There is one pearl in the middle of northern... Read More »
Travel Planning: Food and Meals, Destinations: Italy
Culinary Delights Tour Hits the Gelato Lab
The 8 and 11 day ExperiencePlus! Whole Journey’s Culinary Delights tours feature a visit to the lab at the Carpigiani Gelato Museum and University, a fabulous opportunity to study an... Read More »
Travel Planning: Food and Meals, Destinations: France, Destinations: Italy
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 shared... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy, About ExperiencePlus!: Rider Spotlight
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy, About ExperiencePlus!: Rider Spotlight
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy, About ExperiencePlus!: Rider Spotlight
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. ... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Travel Planning: Food and Meals, Destinations: Italy, Recipes
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy, About ExperiencePlus!: Rider Spotlight
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,... Read More »
Travel Planning: Food and Meals, Destinations: Italy, Recipes
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
Travel Planning: Food and Meals, Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »
About ExperiencePlus!, Travel Planning: Food and Meals, Destinations: Italy
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... Read More »