How to Plan a Cycling Trip to France – the series

Despite the fact I've written and published a Very Comprehensive and Totally Kick Butt Guide to Cycling Through France, I thought I'd write a series of posts around the topic as well. I covered the methodology in a 7 part series, as outlined below.

Use the links below to jump to each post, and if you need more information, check out the Very Comprehensive and Totally Kick Butt Guide to Cycling Through France.

We have a lot of new TDF Tips subscribers to the mailing list lately, so the posts below serve as great starting points for planning your dream trip to France for Le Tour, L'Etape or Le Leisure.

So what are you waiting for? Get cracking!

In Part 1, we cover the creation of an itinerary (initial planning) involving Tour stages, climbs to do, as well as what airlines you might look at.

In Part 2, I discuss Accommodation and Car Hire choices.

In Part 3, we discuss booking flights, accommodation and car/campervan hire.

In Part 4, we look at on the ground stuff like Tolls, Fuel, Food and Camping.

In Part 5, we talk about following an actual Tour stage.

In Part 6, equipment is looked at. Bike bags (transportation), riding gear and general “stuff” is looked at. Equipment is covered in detail in the Cycling Through France ebook.

And in the final part, part 7, I discuss:

• Pitfalls, Tips, Tricks
• Insurance
• Visas
• Money/credit cards
• Mobile phone roaming/internet
• The language
• Document Protection

And that's it! That's the end of the 7 Part Series! It's been fun writing it, and I hope you got something out of it. I'll revisit these posts and update as required. If you have any ideas on how the posts can be improved, feel free to email me.

Note: I don't like scarcity marketing at all, so this isn't shorted content to bait you into buying the ebook. If you see value in a 70-odd page, professionally produced, interactive guide (which you can download a free preview of here), you buy the book and if you don't, that's cool too. At the same time though, I won't replicate all the content in the ebook guide as it's simply too extensive. So we'll just cover high level considerations in these posts.

Like Chris says, you won't die if you don't buy it. You'll still be able to plan a great trip to France, but if you buy the guide, you'll find out the mistakes I made, pitfalls to watch out for, and tips to save money, as well as all the planning info you need in one spot. so it's up to you.