Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive in Strasbourg. This city has easy rail access from Paris with the newly opened TGV line. Rail access from Frankfurt is also possible. Transfer to your Strasbourg hotel on your own and any free time is yours to explore this fantastic centreville. Orientation by phone at 6pm at the hotel. Pickup your bike and adjust at a nearby shop. Old Strasbourg is typically cobbled walking streets, half timbered houses with carved stone porches and courtyards. Superior 4 star hotel and dinner on your own.

Day 2 : Start your tour by riding out of Strasbourg on a well marked bicycle path which makes getting out of this city easy. You ride south to Obernai through charming small villages and the start of the wine route. Discover some of the many castles and vineyards in the surroundings. Distance: 45 km with some hills. Lodging in charming 4 star hotel with dinner on your own. (B)


Day 3: Orbernai Loop Tour: Today is a loop tour in the countryside around Obernai including Ottrot and the Mont St Odile. To visit: Mont Saint Odile monastery: during the Merovingian periods, Saint Odile, daughter of the Duke Adalric, founded a monastery here, which flourished. In the Middle Ages, the monastery was destroyed, then rebuilt by Herrade of Landsberg. Return to same hotel with dinner on your own. 38 km cycling, some hills. (B)

Day 4 : Ride to Riquewihr: Today you will cycle to Riquewihr, a medieval town right in the heart of the Alsatian vineyards, classified among the «Most Beautiful Villages in France». For centuries this magnificent town has managed to combine the quality of its architecture with the quality of its world-famous wines, from where it gets its nickname «The Gem of the Alsace Vineyards». Nice 3 star hotel in the old town, dinner on your own. Cycling 49.5 km. (B)

Day 5: Riquewihr-Colmar
Ride from Riquewihr to Colmar, a nice ride through flowered villages including at the end, Colmar. This is home town of sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi (best known for the Statue of Liberty). The well-preserved old city center houses several, sometimes large-scale buildings in German Gothic and early Renaissance style, as well as a number of old churches, among which the collegiale Saint-Martin (13th-16th century) is the largest and most noteworthy. You spend the night in a charming 3* hotel in the center of the city. Distance: 35 km. (B)

Day 6 :Optional Ride, Visite Colmar: Ride a loop tour into the countryside to Turkheim and part of the Alsace wine route. Turckheim is a former fortified town. You can still see the remparts, which are exceptionnally well preserved. The village also has several half-timbered houses, typical of the region. Back in Colmar at the same hotel, dinner on your own. Distance: 31 km. (B)

Day 7: Departure Day;You have easy rail access from Colmar to Strasbourg, from where you can catch a train back to Paris or Frankfurt.(B)

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