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New account at RidewithGPS

We are excited to announce that we signed up with Ride with GPS tour operator Account Cicloposse That means, our guest will have access to premium navigation features on the route we will share with them Voice Navigation in mobile app – is enough to download for free Offline Maps in our mobile app PDF

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REI cuts international Trips

When we started Cicloposse Bike Tour in 1994, we heard about REI in Seattle: that’s why during our first trip in Us in 1998 we decided to go and visit their headquarter. It was so impressive for me and my husband. We were at the very beginning of our business and we tried to arrange

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Why start bike tour in Pienza?

Here we are!!  Yesterday Spring officially starts and we are still in the pandemic nightmare, but we can see the lights at end of tunnel. Potential guests started to contact us, planning next bike trip in Europe. We do not know yet when exactly, many of us in the Tourism business presume by summer, we

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Caffé: how italians order it!

Visitors to Italy ordering  their first real cappuccino and caffè espresso should remember that they’re in sacred territory. It is sure we invented the way the rest of the world prepares, serves and drinks coffee! Using our words: cappuccino, latte macchiato, Venti, Grande Using espresso machine steam driven – first pioneered by Angelo Moriondo in Turin in 1884. Fashion

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Lead with Love yoga retreats

In may 2020 it was planned the Lead with Love yoga retreat in Beaune, Burgundy and we were signed – of course it was cancelled as any event on the planet due to Pandemic. We joined the first LWL European retreat in 2019, in May, in the beautiful Burgundy’s capital BEAUNE, known for the annual

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Make way for 2021!

We are at the end of this odd year, which has been painful and overwhelming all over the world, so we want to send you our greetings, our love. In these dark days the mass vaccination campaigns have started and give hopes. WHAT WE DID: we are so proud to be part and founder of

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Eroica Montalcino 2020

There were 967 cyclists joining and riding the vintage race, with their vintage bikes! On August 30th, the 4th edition of Eroica Montalcino took place, in the Orcia Valley. The original Eroica, in the past years, has always taken place the first Sunday of October in the Chianti area, but this year, unfortunately, it has been

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Bikes… in The New World

I was reading this article on The Economist: How lockdown converted the world to cycling, and the speed bumps that lie ahead Seems like after pandemic is the cycling moment  and I reflect on it. First of all in all Europe and America  bike shops are selling almost twice new  bikes. In Italy the government give

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Spring 2020 – Post Lockdown

Spring is not canceled, on the contrary is coming into full force. We want to share those photo we start to take on May 1st – when after 8 weeks of very strictly lock down in all Italy, we were allowed to go out for a ride in our town countryside It has been a  strictly