The First Historical Bike Tour: How On Hannibal’s Trail Started It All
The first historical bike tour, the kind that follows a real historical figure’s route day by day, began with On Hannibal’s Trail, a […]
Month: September 2026
From Mt Olympus to Cairo: The Real Campaigns of Alexander the Great
Ask most people to draw Alexander the Great’s route and you’ll get a vague arrow pointing east – Greece, then somewhere hot, […]
The Samurai Road: Feudal Japan’s Warrior History Along the Shogun Route
Day one of a shogun cycling tour starts in Fukuoka, and it starts, fittingly, at a temple older than the shogunate itself. […]
What Actually Makes a Cycling Tour “Historically Themed”
A genuinely historically themed cycling tour is one where the route, the sites and the story are built from real historical and […]
Was Marco Polo Really Venetian or Croatian? Tracing the Venetians Route
Ask a Venetian and the answer is immediate: Marco Polo was born in the city of canals, baptised in its parish records, […]
Who Were the Vikings? The Real History Behind Sailing and now cycling Norway’s Fjord Coast
Say “Viking” and most people picture the same thing: horned helmets, burning monasteries, a longship full of raiders descending on some unsuspecting […]