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 […]
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 […]
Bike Odyssey X̄ Icebreaker 10,000km
Unbelieveably there are riders who have cycled almost every one of our Odysseys. It is an amazing achievement which has taken many […]
Why Every Bike Odyssey Guest Gets a Scicon Race Rain Bag
Since 2020, every rider who joins a Bike Odyssey tour has, tucked into your welcome kit a Scicon Race Rain Bag – […]
A D-Day Odyssey 2026
Last week, on the beaches of Normandy, the last of them returned.
Why Britannia?
The name predates nations, borders, and the complications of history. Britannia was the Roman name for the islands they encountered at the […]