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The Tuscany / Elba Tour

The Tuscany / Elba Tour is for 7 days and includes day trips around many beautiful parts of Tuscany. We can go to the Ducati factory and museum over the famous Futa Pass, down to the beautiful island of Elba (for two days) through the Chianti wine region, over to Pisa and the coastal town of Viareggio, through the mountains of southern Tuscany on roads you won't believe - beautiful surfaces, very little traffic, and lots of bends, through magnificent countryside. We try to keep off the main roads and instead travel through the local roads. We go to lots of beautiful mountain villages with great little cafes for lunch. We can visit Siena, one of the  most beautiful cities in the world, and can go to Florence as an option. We are based at Colle Di Val D'Elsa in the heart of Tuscany. We do thousands of bends and visit many fantastic places over the 7 days. At night, we can either have a barbeque in the beautiful garden of our apartments or can go to one of the many cafes in our 600 year old village. Our apartments have cooking facilities, so if you like, you can prepare your own meals with great local Italian foods.

The Dolomites / Switzerland Tour

The Dolomites is one of the most spectacular mountain regions in the world and a motorcycling mecca. It has lots of wonderful mountain passes to ride over with breathtaking riding and more breathtaking scenery. There are thousands of bends and quite a few challenging hairpins. If the weather is good, we even go over the most famous road pass of them all, the awe inspiring Stelvio Pass, the highest road pass in Western Europe. The 7 day tour actually starts at Mandello de Lario, on Lake Como, the home of Moto Guzzi, so you can do a tour of the Moto Guzzi museum before or after the tour. On day 1, we ride into Switzerland up to St Moritz, where we have lunch and then over parts of the Swiss Alps, through a huge national park, and stay at the foot of the world famous awe inspiring Stelvio Pass, the highest road pass in Western Europe. (The ride over the pass is optional) Then we ride back into northern Italy, before proceeding on to the western Dolomites. We stay there for 4 days, doing day trips over the mountain passes, phenomenal riding !  We can also ride over to the eastern Dolomites, from wher you can visit Slovenia and /or Austria. We then proceed back to Mandello de Lario, again through the Swiss Alps.

The Tuscany and Adriatic Coast Tour

This tour  starts off in our village in Tuscany, from where we ride through the Chianti wine region over to the Adriatic coast of eastern Italy. We then catch an overnight ferry to Split in Croatia, where we spend 4 days touring the the beautiful Dalmation coast including a visit to the world famour heritage listed city of Dbrovnik. We then return by overnight ferry to Italy where we have two more great nights in Tuscany. On the Dalmation coast we can visit the fantastic coastal villages and islands off the coast and enjoy the local food and wine. In Tuscany, I can take you to some of the best riding roads in Italy, through scenic rural mountains and wonderful hilltop villages - with little or no traffic much of the time !

The Italian and French Alps and Corsica Tour 

We start this tour from the beautiful Italian coastal town of Varazze, just west of Genova on the Italian Riviera.For the first 3 days we will explore the Italian Piemonte area, famous for its wineries and beautiful scenery, as well as the nearby French Alps. We will spend a couple of nights in eastern France. Then we will catch an overnight ferry to Corsica, where we will circumnavigate this magnificent island. We will visit the Spanish influenced area of Corsica on its west coast, and travel to the historic city of Corte in the centre of the island. After 3 days we will return to Varazze.