Toulouse Tours and Trips

This tour was the perfect introduction to cycle touring in southern France, especially considering Erwin's sharing his extensive knowledge of European history just about every day. We've discovered we need to learn more, and then come back for similar tours in the years to come.

This tour was wonderful. Our tour leaders were friendly, knowledgeable, thoughtful, and fun. Nothing on the tour felt generic. I never could have found the experiences on my own that the tour leaders cultivated for us.

Riding by the canal was amazing! The scenery ever changing. A great itinerary where we stayed several days at each place. We visited lots of interesting, scenic places, and enjoyed delicious meals. Our guide Erwin was wonderful - friendly, helpful and always aware of our needs - and amazing knowledge of the area. I’ll be keen to look at another Explore cycling tour.

The trip has been put together extremely well. We travelled on public transport wherever it was possible, in line with Expore's green policies. The visits to the various food and wine establishments were excellent and very informative as well as the tastings we had in the local markets.

Great cycling & a beautiful area to visit. Erwin is so welcoming, knowledgeable, accommodating & passionate about ensuring the group have the best holiday. The accommodation is perfectly located and we had time each day to explore. Would definitely recommend this trip.

The cycling was graded as "easy" and I was pleased that was indeed the case as I had never done a cycling holiday with Explore before. The group of 16 looked rather daunting at first, but we all got on really well together and had good fun, especially all mucking in to make an unexpected barbecue in the grounds of our accommodation. The accommodation was appropriate for the places and areas where we were, and the tour leader organised everything well to see the most interesting places, have good meals and a wine-tasting, and stop for appropriate breaks. The "optional" harder day was the most enjoyable, the beautiful scenery and stunning village of Minerve more than making up for the uphill ride.