Blogsites update

It is the nearing the pre-planning stage for the year's first tour! Time to ruminate and contemplate and put ideas in the ether for spring and summer! Endless computations, combinations, configurations to to checkout: ferries, trains and planes.

Here are plenty of ideas from the easy going to the stamina smashers...

Mountain Col tours

Geneva Alps Provence Grand and Petite St. Bernard passes, Madeleine, Glandon 7 days +

Geneva Monte Carlo Latauret, Vars, La Bonette
7 days +

Pyrenees Tourmalet, Aubisque, les Landes, Canal Latéral, Bordeaux 10 days +

Mittenwald Milan Stelvio 5 days +

Annecy Nice Télégraphe, Galibier, Izoard, Agnel, Tende 6 days +

Hilly tours

Toulouse Barcelona Canal du Midi, foothills of Pyrenees, cliff-hugging road into Spain 5 days +

Le Mans Marseilles Loire and Indre valleys, Puy de Dôme, Gorges de l'Ardèche 7 days +

Cevennes and Ventoux Tarn Valley, Millau, Florac, Avignon, Bédoin, Mont Ventoux, Robion 7 days +

Short flat trips

Calais Dieppe Course, Canche valleys, Amiens 
2 days +

Western Front Ypres, Arras, Albert  3 days +

Calais Vimy Neuve-Chappelle, Vimy, Ypres  3 days +

Ypres Holland Ypres, Tyne Cot, Cadzand,
Dunkerque 3 days +

Dieppe Dunkerque two day dash 2 days



Hook of Holland Over Zealand then south-east to Antwerp; south-west to Ypres 3 days +

Hook of Holland Dunkerque North Sea Coast Route - the Zeeland sea defences 3 days +

Somme Albert 3 days +

Dieppe Caen east Normandy 3 days +

safe cycling!