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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

History and Geography of the Olympic Games in Ancient …

History and Geography of the Camino de Santiago in Spain

Tour Report: Cycling Andalucia

Italy’s Spectacular Dolomite Mountains

How We Saw Lance on the Alpe d’Huez

Greece: Travels with Benjamin, the Donkey

Living Art History on the Camino de Santiago