Highlights & Stories

Germany / Highlights & Stories / Hungary

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 Romania on the Black Sea coast. We cycle through… Read full article
Argentina / Chile / Highlights & Stories

ExpeditionPlus! in South America with Monica and Michele

Monica Malpezzi Price and Michele Boglioni recount their travels in South America. Michele and Monica were slated to help lead our inaugural ExpeditionPlus! Coast to Coast trip Across Chile and Argentina. They landed in Santiago de Chile on Christmas day… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Hungary / Poland Slovakia Hungary / Slovenia / Turkey

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 adventure with our first ExpeditionPlus! (bicycling from St. Petersburg, Russia to Istanbul, Turkey) for her club newsletter last fall. She’s kindly… Read full article
Germany / Highlights & Stories / Hungary

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 likely the extent of your knowledge. Unfortunately for most… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Italy

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: "The history and the art of Italy’s different regions were determined by the food people eat in each of these… Read full article
Argentina / Chile / Highlights & Stories

Discovering Argentina & Chile

Discovering Argentina & Chile by Bicycle Argentina and Chile cover a lot of ground, from the forbidding rocks of Cape Horn and Patagonia’s mountains, through the endless grasslands of the pampas region to the high Andes, the fierce Atacama Desert… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories

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 on my ride today. It is the best way… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories / Italy

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 geography and history of Italy’s Cinque Terre. We have also included some resources to help you find hotels or other lodging… Read full article
Argentina / Chile / Germany / Highlights & Stories / Hungary

Expeditions in Two Hemispheres

Bicycle Expeditions in Two Hemispheres To those of us with normal jobs, it might seem surprising that somebody who designs and sells bicycle tours for a living would have frustrated dreams about big trips. But that’s just how our first… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Ireland

Bicycling Ireland

Bicycling Ireland A Bike Tour Review by Jan Rastall of ExperiencePlus! May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. So goes an Old Irish… Read full article
Highlights & Stories / Italy

Cycling Southern Italy and Puglia

Cycling Southern Italy and Puglia Fifteen years ago Paola and I led each of the five tours we offered every year. Now we are lucky to participate in two or three tours per year of the seventy or so that… Read full article
Argentina / Chile / Highlights & Stories

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 the destination.” But who says it’s got the be one or the other? Join this month’s featured tour, the ExpeditionPlus! Coast to… Read full article
France / Highlights & Stories

Provence: Ruins, History, Artists, Authors, Wine, Culinary and Cycling Delights

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! the Cevennes and our Bicycling through the Best of… 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

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 / 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