All of our tours are designed to
give the maximum flexibility to ensure everybody gets what they
want from the holiday. Each day we offer three routes of different
lengths and covering different terrain and we always include a
double- or triple-night stop in at least one location to give
'days-off' to those who want to mix riding with relaxing.
As we can have a wide variety of
machines on any tour - solos, sidecars and classics - as well
as a range of abilities and riding styles we don't expect everybody
to ride together but we do find that very often riders of like
minds tend to team up for a day or more. The Moto Provencale guide
will always be there at the start and end of each day to ensure
everybody has all the information they need and will accompany
any rider who wants company. Should anybody have a problem
during the day we can quickly take their exact location from their
GPS and drive straight to them - no more guessing which country
lane you are parked on!
Our Alps and Monaco trip is a chance
to see the wide variety of landscape and colour on show in Provence.
Starting from St
Remy again with our optional sidecar or acclimatisation courses
before we leave, we head due east :
Monday - We start with coffee in Lourmarin,
my favourite village in the whole of France before heading on through
the very start of the Alps to Sisteron, our base for the next two
nights.
Tuesday - Famous
as the first town Napoleon walked into after escaping from Elba
on his way to oblivion at Waterloo you can stroll around the castle
of Sisteron
before our day in the ‘High Alps’ with its spectacular
scenery and switchbacks.
Wednesday - We
head south to the Gorges
du Verdon – the ‘grand Canyon of Europe’.
You can take a ride around the gorge and maybe try swimming or
canoeing down it or strike out further afield around the pine-clad
regions of middle provence.
Then its put on your yachting cap and Gucci jeans, we’re off
to Monaco!
Riding down through the perfume capital of Grasse we drop down through
the Maritime Alps to Monaco with its harbour, casino and famous
race track – we have never got close to Schumakers lap record
on a Ural but we keep trying…
Thursday - Having
stopped in a hotel just outside Monaco with a spectacular view
of the Mediterranean from every room we head along the coast (skip
around to St
Tropez if you want to see the ageing hippys and big boats)
to the beautiful harbour at Cassis.
Friday - Breakfast
overlooking the harbour and maybe try a boat trip around the Calanques,
the hidden rocky inlets inaccessible by road before riding through
the beautiful old town of Aix-en-Provence (the “Paris of
the south”) and back through the countryside to St Remy.
The tour starts and ends at our
base in St Remy, giving you the opportunity to take advantage
of our acclimatisation course in advance or to take a few extra
days in our beautiful corner of Provence.
Monday - Our first
riding day takes us west through the beautiful Sevennes national
park, stopping for coffee at the 2000 year old aqueduct of Pont
du Gard, the tallest roman structure left standing. Passing
the Tarn gorge we head for the medieval town of Carcassonne.
Tuesday - we have
a choice of routes around the Languedoc and the foothills of the
Pyrenees taking in stops as varied as the aerospace
museum in Toulouse or the old city of Rodez.
Wednesday - we
climb the Pyrenees and stop for lunch in the tiny principality
of Andorra
– duty free shopping can be stored in the luggage vehicle!
Our evening stop is the parador of Vic. Paradors
are old Spanish castles or houses restored and run by the Spanish
government as hotels and are truly elegant.
Thursday - is
our trip into Barcelona
with an opportunity to run as far down the coast as you want.
Friday -
we head north again, finding the coast around Perpignan and lunching
at Cap d'Agde before cruising home through the Camargue
with its flamingos, bulls and famous white horses.
ALL TOURS:
Arrival and departure point: Marseille
or Nimes airport, Avignon TGV
Price: Rider-sharing
room £875 Passenger sharing room £200
Rider single room £ 975
+ price of rental bike
(if required) for 5 days
Please Note: These tours can be
run at any time for groups of 4 or more riders. If you want to
join a tour call us and we will try to co-ordinate individual
riders into a group
