Intro to the Mountains
If you're a keen roadie looking for a cycling trip that will ease you into what you can expect from a classic Skedaddle tour in the mountains, you're in luck! Featuring their fair share of cheeky climbs, these are by no means meant for beginners, but they do offer a much more gentle alternate to our more extreme mountain routes.
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A beautiful road cycling tour in France, in one of the most popular and most visited regions, Provence. With its diverse landscape, ranging from snow-capped mountains, pancake flat lavender plains and a stunningly beautiful coastline it's not difficult to see why. All of this stunning scenery, combined with fantastic food, over 300 days a year of sunshine and an extremely agreeable climate make Provence an irresistible cycling vacation destination. Provence is home to some of the best road cycling in southern Europe. You...
This road cycling holiday in France includes some of the most famous and most notorious Tour de France climbs. Most road cyclists dream of riding these great icons of the sport but if you've never ridden in the mountains before, the prospect can be quite daunting. Riding in the mountains brings different challenges when compared to all other types of riding and this tour has been designed specifically to ease you into mountain riding. Each day features one main challenging, yet manageable, ascent with the option of a second ...
Your base is the picturesque medieval village of Chalabre, situated in the foothills of the stunning yet demanding Pyrenees, located a mere 45 minute drive from the historic city of Carcassonne, a fortified town that is on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. You'll enjoy riding out on a daily basis from a pleasantly appointed 16th century French house, where we will take you out into the surrounding hills and mountains for a series of unforgettable training rides. The region is steeped in Cathar history with a netwo...
Your base is the picturesque medieval village of Chalabre, situated in the foothills of the stunning yet demanding Pyrenees, located a mere 45 minute drive from the historic city of Carcassonne, a fortified town that is on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. You'll enjoy riding out on a daily basis from a pleasantly appointed 16th century French house, where we will take you out into the surrounding hills and mountains for a series of unforgettable training rides. The region is steeped in Cathar history with a net...
One of our most popular road cycling tours in France visits Corsica; known to the ancient Greeks as 'Kalliste' - the most beautiful - and referred to as 'The Beautiful Isle' by generations of travelers ever since, Corsica is one of the most diverse places in Europe. Our place to place vacation around the north of this Mediterranean gem takes in the very best of the many delights that this special island has to offer. Beginning and ending in the bustling historic city of Bastia on the eastern coast of the island, our tour...
In conjunction with our long-established and very successful tour of Northern Corsica; (The Beautiful Isle), we bring you another road cycling holiday in France which covers the magnificent southern region of Corsica. Keen to assert their own identities, Corsica is divided into 'Haute-Corse' (upper Corsica) and 'Corse-du-Sud' (southern Corsica). The diversity of the landscape allows both of them to shine in their own right and both deserve a separate visit to make the most of them! This tour of the south is an absolute g...
One of our most popular destinations in the Skedaddle Italia range, the island of Sardinia is home to Skedaddle Italia, and as a result, the road cycling trip here guarantees the best possible routes, accommodation and local fare! This is a place to place tour, exploring the very 'heart of Sardinia' - a beautiful Mediterranean gem famous worldwide for its sea and its coasts, yet more than 80% of its territory is mountainous and hilly, with many peaks well over 1,000m high. The smooth surfaces of the mountain roads are pe...
A superb road cycling holiday in Italy which explores its Northern Lake District, an area synonymous with cycling history. The Giro d'Italia almost always visits this region and, perhaps even more famously, it is the setting for the Tour of Lombardy, or 'the race of the falling leaves', the autumnal one day classic which, each year, marks the end of the pro-cycling calendar. Focusing on the lakes and the alpine foothills, or 'pre-alpi', our own Tour of Lombardia has been designed to appeal to discerning cyclists who like...
This superb road cycling tour traverses east to west through the stunning mountain ranges of the Spanish region of Andalucia. Following the arc of the Mediterranean, our cycling route begins on the beautiful volcanic coastline of the Cabo de Gata. Leaving the clear waters of the Mediterranean and sweeping golden sands behind us we head into the mountains of Andalucía. We'll ride through the dramatic, inhospitable 'badlands' of the Tabernas desert, once the favored backdrop of western films, before we climb onto th...
This Sierra Nevada and Granada cycling tour is one of our most popular road cycling vacations in Spain and it's easy to see why! It is a challenging ride for sure but we do get to explore Andalucia, Spain's most diverse and culturally exotic region. Moorish architecture, flamenco clubs, tapas bars and golden beaches have been seducing travelers for many years and we're going to find out why on our bikes. A great swathe of the south eastern quarter of the region is dominated by the imposing mountain range of the Sierra Ne...
A superb road cycling holiday in Morocco. With its roots in Africa, but charged with eastern exoticism, Morocco represents an incredible and truly different destination. Morocco is a vast wilderness of towering mountains and desolate desert where rural life has hardly changed in hundreds of years. With an ever expanding network of quiet roads throughout the Atlas Mountains there has never been a better time for road cyclists to visit and experience this incredible Morocco cycling tour. Starting and finishing in the capit...
This Slovenia and Croatia biking holiday is a brand new tour exploring Slovenia's Julian Alps and the hills and coast of Croatia's beautifully unspoiled Istrian peninsula. It begins in the charming alpine town of Bled situated on the eastern shore of its namesake lake. Resembling Austria, the Julian Alps are renowned for their lush green pine forests and tree lined passes and we'll spend the initial stages of our tour exploring these to the full. This is a region of remote farmsteads, churches perched on lofty hillsides ...