Highlights & Stories

Highlights & Stories / Italy

Reflections on Monica and Michele’s Big Fat Italian Wedding

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 of the world), medieval folk dancing, lots of food and even more laughter. Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Italy

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 come to appreciate the perspective of one of my geography professors. "There is no such thing as an uninteresting place," he observed,… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories / Spain

Two Epic Bike Journeys

Spain’s Camino de Santiago & Annie Londonderry’s 1894/95 Bicycle Ride Through France: Two Epic Journeys with ExperiencePlus! If you are celebrating a special birthday, anniversary, graduation or retirement you owe yourself an unforgettable journey. These two bicycle tours offer just… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories

Bicycling Burgundy – it’s not about the wine – its about the cycling, history and friends

Bicycling Burgundy – it’s not about the wine – its about the cycling, history and friends Is there more to bicycling in Burgundy than discovering wines? When I joined the Bicycling Burgundy’s Vineyard tour with my family last fall ,… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Italy

Bicycling Tuscany

Bicycling Tuscany A Bike Tour Review by James Pippin A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of bicycling through Tuscany leading twenty other cyclists on an ExperiencePlus! Little Tour in Tuscany. I knew some folks beforehand, although… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories

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, vineyards, forests and, of course, the fabled châteaux dotting the… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories / Spain

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 to the greatest cycling race The Running of… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Italy

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 of the historical region of Aquitaine, which for centuries was vaster and richer than the territory held by the kings… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories

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 with you the wonderful and unique area of France called Brittany. You have certainly heard this word like the… Read full article
Greece / Highlights & Stories

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 Greeks and ruler of the sky (Zeus’s brothers Poseidon and Hades ruled the sea and the Underworld, respectively). The Olympic games… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Spain

History and Geography of the Camino de Santiago in Spain

History and Geography of the Camino de Santiago in Spain St. James the Greater was the brother of John the Evangelist. The brothers were converted to Christianity by St. John the Baptist. James was martyred in 44 A.D. in Palestine… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Spain

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 groves extending as far as the eye can see,… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Italy

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 seen anywhere in the world. So unique is this area… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories

How We Saw Lance on the Alpe d’Huez

How We Saw Lance on the Alpe d’Huez by Rick Price One of the most frequent compliments we receive at ExperiencePlus! is how well planned and organized our tours are. Customers often comment on the fluidity of tours and our… Read full article
Greece / Highlights & Stories

Greece: Travels with Benjamin, the Donkey

Greece: Travels with Benjamin, the Donkey By Rick Price, founder of ExperiencePlus! We bought Benjamin from a gypsy in a little village near Kalamata. Yes, Kalamata of olive fame in the southern Peloponnese. We made a decision to do this… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Spain

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 ride or hike, past trips and future trips and everything in between. It isn’t long though before I inevitably am asked… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Italy

A Day at the “Farm” the ExperiencePlus! Headquarters in Italy by Sylva Florence

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 mist on the counter. Soon, it warms up… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories

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 or Dave Sees Lance Armstrong win six in a row or Dave Decides to do more Training Next Time by Dave Mabee… Read full article