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Discover the World on a Bicycle Tour

Welcome to the 2010 bicycling Season!

Bicycling is one of the best ways to explore the world.  We know because we’ve been bicycle touring the globe since 1972. ExperiencePlus! Bicycle Tours is a family owned company that offers bike trips in over twenty countries.  We started bicycling in Europe over 30 years ago and since then have helped bicyclists and curious travelers discover bicycle touring throughout the world.

Our bicycle trips in France and Italy, our "home-away-from-home," are our most popular but we’ve expanded our bike tours to include itineraries in  Spain, Greece, Costa Rica, Croatia, Chile,  Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.S. Come discover Europe and South America on one of our bicycle trips and we promise you'll feel like you've really been somewhere when you get home.

Using our signature "chalk arrow" navigation system, you’ll bicycle on quiet country roads. You’ll stay in small, family-run inns in the heart of town. From Tuscany to Provence, from Istanbul to the Chilean Central Valley and wine country, come and experience local village life firsthand.

If you love bicycling or simply being active, fabulous food, laughter, and the thought of traveling with some of the most fascinating people on the planet, ExperiencePlus! is your gateway to a lifetime of discovery.

So come on in to our website and explore a little, then send us an email or give us a call the old-fashioned way. We’d love to get acquainted and help you choose your next adventure.

- Monica and Maria Elena Price

Monica Price and Maria Elena Price, current owners and general managers of ExperiencePlus! Bicycle ToursPaola, Maria Elena, Rick and Monica pose as they cruise along the Danube.

Featured Bicycle Tour - March 2010 

 

Bicycle Tours in Italy

Cycling Assisi and the Best of S. Tuscany

ExperiencePlus! is premiering the Italian bicycling vacation you’ve been dreaming about in 2010. Our Cycling Assisi and the Best of Southern Tuscany Plus! Florence trip brings together the best of Italy – quiet, winding roads for picture perfect cycling days, authentic Tuscan cuisine, some of our favorite Tuscan and Chianti wines,  and vibrant historical towns. This bicycle trip offers you a perfect balance between famous and undiscovered places as it travels from Assisi, home to St. Francis of Assisi, west towards the better known cities of Siena and Florence while stopping in the smaller towns of Cortona, made famous by France Mayes, Pienza, Montalcino and Montepulciano.

We invite you to visit our Cycling Assisi and the Best of Southern Tuscany Plus! Florence photo gallery, or jump straight to the tour information for our 8 and  11 day tours below.

  Cycling Tuscany's Hills

 

 

Dates don’t work for you?  Looking for additional tours?  Take a look at our Tour Finder OR call us today at 1-800-685-4565.


New in this month's Rambler Newsletter:


Featured Article:

New Titanium Road Bikes in Europe

How does a custom made aerospace grade titanium frame with a combination of Shimano Ultegra and 105 components, a carbon fork, and titanium rails on the saddle sound? ExperiencePlus! now offers you the finest road touring bikes in the European bicycle touring business. 



New Titanium Bicycles on all Bicycle Tours in Europe

Movie Review: Spaghetti Westerns

What do Clint Eastwood, Andalucia in southern Spain, the Italian island of Sardinia and Italian composer Ennio Morricone have in common?

 




The landscapes of Sardinia are depicted in many of the Spaghetti Westerns

Customer Interview

An Interview With Customer Bill Hunter

Bill and his wife, Margie, joined ExperiencePlus! on the September 2009, Coast of Tuscany trip.

Describe your perfect day outdoors: Day 4 of the Cycling the Coast of Tuscany tour, biking to cool towns, enjoying them and biking on. The beauty of the road and surroundings, smelling the grapes being harvested, enjoying the sun while testing my stamina on some of the longer hills. 


 
 Bill and Margie in Florence before their bicycle tour in Tuscany

Recipes - From Mamma Paola's Kitchen

Acquacotta (Tuscan Soup)

Every Italian region has its culinary specialties.  Tuscany, for example, is famous throughout Italy for its bread, its olive oil, and for a variety of soups, including bean soup, minestrone, the ancient Roman soup made from spelt (farro in Italian), lentil soup (shown in the photo) and others.  The recipe below for acquacotta is the Sienese version with the added exotic ingredients of porcini mushrooms and a bit of sausage (what Tuscan farmer doesn’t have mushrooms in late fall and fresh sausage from a newly butchered pig in early winter?)

Click through to read the rest of Paola's Acquacotta Recipe.

If you would like additional recipes, visit our online recipe archive. You'll find recipes for European and Latin American specialties like Panzanella: a Tuscan Salad, Tapenade, Gallo Pinto, and more

 

Ingredients for a great Acquacotta recipe