Road Bike Hire – Loire Valley Bike Tours
Road bike hire on our Loire Valley bike tours is becoming a popular upgrade with our guests. So, we’ve added more road bikes to the cycle hire fleet – already preparing for our 2020 Loire Valley Bike Tour season here in France! Road Bike – Orbea Avant We’ve purchased a further Orbea Avant model, as ...
Loire Life Cycling in Greece!
No, we’ve not opened a new Cycling Holiday base in Greece! We’ve just spent a lovely week taking a breather and enjoying some road and mountain bike cycling on the Greek island of Rhodes. We were lucky and had late October temperatures in the high twenties, perfect blue skies for the entire week and able ...
Loire Cycling Holidays 2019 – A great season!
Our Loire cycling holiday 2019 season is over and what a great season it was! Our busiest cycling season ever with 12 Loire Valley Discovery Tours and short cycling breaks in between. We made the most of a long hot summer here in the Loire Valley, France. We hosted guests from all over the world, ...
Revealing our 2019 Loire Valley Cycling Jerseys!
We’re really pleased to reveal our Loire Life Cycling jersey for the 2019 season! The jersey is a unique design produced in partnership with Owayo Custom Kit and will be available for purchase. If you’ve cycled with us before and fancy a unique cycling jersey, please get in touch and we can arrange postage. We’ve ...
Enjoy this fantastic video – The Discovery Tour!
In September Julie, Marybeth, Theresa & Andrea from Whitehall, Michigan, USA joined our Loire Valley cycling tour. They put together this brilliant video and have been kind enough to let us share it with you! Follow the ladies as they cycle to Langeais, Chateau Villandry, Bourgueil with it’s fantastic market and wineries, the secret Chateaux ...
E-Bikes on our Loire Valley Cycle Tours
We picked up Loire Life Cycling’s first E-Bikes this week and immediately gave them a ride up to the Lac du Rillé. Jon also attached Ruby’s trailer bike (with Ruby on-board) to see what difference that made to the battery life. After a lot of research, we’ve opted for a Gitane Organ’e with the drive ...
Mixing wine and work
Just as cycling and other outdoor activities spring back into life in the Loire in May, so do the vineyards as they fling their doors open to let us sample the fruits of their labours. Over the Easter weekend we spent a happy half day tasting at Chateau du Petit Thouars and this weekend at ...
What did our first guests of 2018 get up to?
The 2018 cycling season is underway and our first guests found the sun and warm temperatures were here to greet them! From Ottowa, Canada, they hired a car from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and spent four nights with us on our Loire Valley Short Cycling Breaks. So what did they get up to? Arriving ...
Loire Life Cycling Holidays – Plans for 2018
Happy New Year to everyone from the Loire Valley France! The weather this week allowed us to ride for the first time in 2018. On Thursday 25 km around the lake at Rille and then on Sunday a 7 km jaunt to the bakery and cafe in our local village with our daughter Ruby. She’s ...
Road Bikes for our Loire Valley Cycle Tours
Road Bikes for our Cycle Tours are now a hire option for the 2018 cycling season. We’ve added the Orbea Avant to our fleet, which can be rented as an upgrade on our cycle breaks and tours. Availability is limited, so it will be early bookers that have more of a chance of bagging one. ...