Tour History and a very important one too…. Who invented Pasta, one of the most vital food sources on any bike tour! By the way a nice mention by Forbes mag too…. The 50cm-long yellow food substance, in the image on the right, was found in a pot buried during a catastrophic flood, radiocarbon dated to around […]
Tour History – Marco Polo – Now whether he was born in Venice or Korcula, Croatia, which was the subject of an earlier Tour History – https://blog.bikeodyssey.cc/blog/2017/12/18/bike-odyssey-marco-polo . However, there is little doubt he travelled a long long way! Marco’s first epic trip was in 1271, he was 17 years old. He travelled for 4 years […]
Tour History and the first post for The Venetians – Venice to Dubrovnik, our new Odyssey! An inspiration for this tour is undoubtedly one of Venice’s favourite sons, Marco Polo. However, it wasn’t so long ago that Croatia tried to lay claim to the great explorer! The exact date and place of Marco Polo’s birth […]
Our cycling tours are odysseys – historic and challenging. We want to give riders the excitement, adventure and trip of their lives. Saying that, we also want you to be able to appreciate the places in full which we are peddling through. I know some of you out there want to ride every single metre […]
On our bike tours, we love history, food and a good aperitif and we certainly have our tour ‘themes’. However, as with so many parts of the world, there is so much depth in the history as you travel through these amazing territories. One of our riders (thanks, Tony!) said to me that he had […]
The Hammerhead Karoo – Bike Tour GPS Technology We are always looking to step up any aspect of our Bike tours. One thing I have been looking for many years is an exceptional GPS device and I think I have found it…. Pretty soon we are taking delivery of a couple of Hammerhead Karoos for testing. If they deliver […]