Wine Country Cycling Tours Are Great For a Family Vacation

Take the Whole Family on Wine Country Cycling Tours

Wine country cycling tours are very popular tours. On these tours you get taken around wine country and shown where some of the best wine in the world is produced.

There are wine country cycling tours available in all popular wine countries, including Santa Barbara and Napa Valley.

Taking the whole family on these tours is great, although the children should be old enough to participate so that they are interested in the vacation. Consider their stamina too, or at least the time spent riding.

Tour Companies

Randonee Tours are quite popular and are considered as being North America’s leading specialist in self-guided active tours since 1990. They offer a wide range of cycling, hiking, walking and unique active driving tours that are perfect for the entire family.

The Santa Barbara Wine Country Cycling Tours is another great option and they are the only full service, locally owned cycling tour company, located in the heart of the Santa Barbara wine country.

They offer wine country cycling tours, including day trips, multi day trips and custom tours. They also offer cycling packages, complete with the best routes and professional guides, if you would like a guided tour.

Self Guided Bicycle Tours Through Europe

A unique experience, is seeing Europe through a self guided bicycle tour. It is guaranteed to be one of the best vacations in your lifetime. It’s easy to view the world from the seat of a bicycle. You see so much more from a bike than you do through from the window of a car. Taking a bicycle tour through Europe is as easy as deciding which country you want to start from.

A variety of bicycle tours through Europe start in Germany. The Lake Constance self guided tour through Bavaria starts in the town of Lindau, which calls itself “the happy end of Germany.” This ride is not recommended for beginners, as the elevation through the Allgaeu Mountains of Bavaria and the highlands of the Allgaeu call for strong climbing legs. The scenery is well worth the effort, with views of the spectacular alps, alpine lakes and forests. This is a self guided, seven-night tour.

A much better option for beginner cyclists, is the bicycle path that goes round Lake Constance. This path is the most popular bicycle riding route in all of Europe. Travel through the medieval villages of Meersburg, Lindau, Stain, and Konstanz. This is a self guided, seven-night tour.

The Innsbruck to Munich bicycle tour through Europe is another challenging bit of roadway, with high mountains and deep canyons providing challenges and thrills. You’ll be amazed by the beauty of the Ziller Valley, with its rustic guest houses and turquoise blue water. This is a self guided, six-night tour.

The Four Countries, Three Lakes tour takes cyclists through Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and Germany, along three picturesque lakes. This seven night tour is also self guided.

The Berlin to Copenhagen tour provides 400 miles of scenic cycling on some of the best maintained bike paths in Europe. You’ll see rustic fishing villages and royal palaces as you travel quiet country roads.

It’s been said that Holland is such a low country; one can see the horizon from under the belly of a cow. You can try this for yourself when you take the Dutch Lowlands bicycle tour through Europe. Ride your bike along the sluices, bridges and other waterworks that keep the Netherlands above water, if not above sea level.

For families with children aged between 7 and 11, the cycle and sail holiday takes you on a guided tour for seven nights. Activities of interest for children are included in this tour. Sail across Ijssel Lake to the port town of Hoorn, then cycle to an open air museum and other sight seeing destinations.

Even if you’ve been to Europe before, you haven’t seen it all unless you have taken a bicycle tour through Europe.

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