wine and cycling DO mix

jinka

ok lads,

Booked a week off start of September. I would love to do a cycling holiday. Nothing too serious or expensive. Any ideas???? Anything considered.
Ideally drinking lots of red wine and good food after it!

emty

www.vamoscycling.com

bcmf

jinka wrote: »

ok lads,

Booked a week off start of September. I would love to do a cycling holiday. Nothing too serious or expensive. Any ideas???? Anything considered.
Ideally drinking lots of red wine and good food after it!

Just back from Midi-Libre area in france. Serious cycling country.Just East of Millau and its famous bridge. You can do long roads flattish through the valleys and gorges and literally with 1 turn you are on 10-12km serious uphill sections to plateuax.I could have sworn I saw Riis out riding through the Tarn Gorge 2 days after TdF.If it wasnt him he has a doppleganger who was hockeying along the road. Needless to say France. great wine at great prices with great food and cheese.

Captain Havoc

The Swiss tourism board is going to have to start paying me, but I love that country so much: http://www.veloland.ch/en/welcome.cfm

Caroline_ie

I know there are some cycle tourism packakes around Bordeaux which is quite flat that takes the cyclists around the wine castles of Aquitaine.
It's relatively flat. You can also always get a map and go around by yourself

here
here
here
There are just a quick google search ... I am sure there are better ones out there.

nak

http://www.belvederericcione.com/

amazing food, wine and a free spa to spend the afternoons in.

paddy's hill

Pyrenees
http://www.velopeloton.com/guestbook/guestbook.htm
Great location and fab food, run by an Irish couple. Hautacam, Luz Ardiden, Aubisque, Soulor & Col de Tourmalet, all within 15km.

Alps
http://www.hotel-au-bon-accueil.com/zomer/hotel_en.html
Run by a dutch couple, fab food, between Alpe d'Huez & Les 2 Alpes.

Spain
http://www.vamoscycling.com/
Run by English couple, great cycling but not the famous cols of other 2. Better in winter.

godihatethehils

On the subject of wine and cycling, if twitter is anything to go by Lance had a couple too many glasses of red on Monday night and Bradley Wiggins polished off a bottle of 22 year old rioja.

frankly, if it's good enough for them.....

blorg

@Jinka- need to decide, will you carry your own stuff from day to day (loaded touring) and travel A to B or in a loop. Or do you want day rides all from the same place, what is your current fitness level, planned daily distances etc.