Welcome to Tour de France Tips – the website for planning a cycling trip to France for Le Tour, L’Etape or just leisure. The website is full of useful information, facts and ideas to help you plan a great trip to France. For an all-in-one guide, check out the extensive Guide to Cycling Through France [...]
Name of Place: La Toscane Pizza Type of Tip: Food Place Street Address: 14 Rue Carrerot Suburb/Town: Oloron-Sainte-Marie Major City: e.g. London, Paris etc State/Provence: Aquitania Country: France Zip/Postal: 64400 This place is hidden away behind some arches so look hard. It’s on the left heading down the hill. The crusts are thin and crispy [...]
After the let-downs of Stage 16 and Stage 17 (at least in terms of photos, and compared to last year), we headed into Salies-de-Béarn for the start of Stage 18. We dropped Andrew off at the Pau train station (which by the way has the BEST croissants I have ever had, EVER – read more [...]
*Apologies for the sometimes-less-than-optimal photos, I was late for my plane. With the advent of cheap prosumer digital SLRs, I thought it would be interesting to review my new Lowepro Compurover AW backpack to help you decide upon a backpack to travel with, if you have camera gear to take to France. When looking at [...]
Name of Place: Laé de Haut Type of Tip: Hotel/Motel Website: http://www.selfcatering-pyrenees.com/ Street Address: None Suburb/Town: Aramits Major City: e.g. London, Paris etc State/Provence: Aquitania Country: France Zip/Postal: 64570 We stayed here in 2010. Near the town of Oloron Saint Marie, it’s in a great position near the Col de la Pierre St Martin – [...]
Now that the 2010 Tour de France and L’Etape du Tour are done and dusted, it is only a mere 2-and-a-bit months until the 2011 Parcours is announced. I have a few ebooks coming out to support your planning for 2011, including an Etape-only guide, TDF-only guide and a leisure-only guide. I’m also putting together [...]
Well, sometimes you plan and make allowances and things just go wrong. Our plan this day was to get to the Col du Marie Blanque, the first climb of the stage and only 30km from where we were staying, and a reasonably steep climb. This would allow me to get good photos (due to the [...]
