Biking Transcontinental — 5 weeks
France (Southern Burgundy), Switzerland, the Italian Lakes, Venice, Germany (Munich) & Austria

On this page, you will find...
Our Trips
Overview Map
of all of our routes

Departure Calendar
of our regular trips
What's Included
in the Trip Cost
Additional Services
you can add to the bike trip.

One can't see “all” of anything, but Biking Transcontinental makes a fair attempt, offering an excellent sampling of continental Europe’s diversity. The paradoxical result is that you realize how much more there is to see. The variety of discoveries made on such a journey defies any generalization about “Europe.”

Countries and capitals surpass their stereotypes. Dijon is more than a mustard: it’s a hub of XVth century political intrigue. Venice’s tourists melt before the patchwork of Tuscan, Turkish and Austrian architectural influences, whose soft colors and harmonious forms decorate the canal banks of your evening walks. Salzburg is centuries’ worth of classical music tradition. Vienna... well, we’ll leave its discovery, and countless others, to you.

Each remarkably different French village or Alpine pasture increases your curiosity about the next. And each country’s attempts to advance in the modern world give new perspective to choices in our own. The tourist who travels too fast (or too quickly) assumes that all is the same; that nothing is missed. Biking Transcontinental avoids this mistake, and helps you to realize just how much more there is to see.

Biking Transcontinental
2008 Dates
Baggage Services Offered*
(optional)
Trip Price
June 29 - August 2

Daily
Half
Lite

$6,795 US or C
4,495€

Prices in $ and € do not include precisely the same things. Click here for details, and for prices of optional extras (private single rooms, baggage services, “Access Packages”).

* At least 4 riders must subscribe to a given baggage service for it to operate (except for Lite, which always operates on this trip). Services already confirmed to be operating appear in bold. If the “Daily” service is confirmed, the “Half” service may no longer be offered to future sign-ups, though it will be provided to those who have previously selected it. See here for a discussion of our baggage services.
Thumbnail view of the trip’s itinerary
For details within each region, click on the name under “Region Visited”...
Days
Days of the Week
 Region Visited Details
1
Sa
 Access Package Trip assembles in Dijon in the evening
2 - 8
 Southern Burgundy
Su - Tu
 Vineyards of the Côte d'Or
We & Th
 The Côte Chalonaise and the Mâconais
Fr & Sa
 Dijon, Vercingétorix, and a continental divide
8 - 15
 Switzerland
Sa - Mo
 The Jura
Mo - Th
 Lake Geneva, the Rhône & the Alps
Th - Sa
 Zermatt, the Vispa Valley
15 - 23
 Italian Lakes
Sa & Su
 The Ossola Valley
Mo - Fr
 The Lakes, Ticino
Sa & Su
 Venice
23 & 24
Su & Mo
 Night train to Munich Monday morning free in Munich. Continue to Salzburg (2 hours away) at your leisure.
24 - 36
 Austria
Mo & Tu
 Salzburg
We - Mo
 The Austrian Alps
Tu - Th
 The Danube and the Wachau
Fr & Sa
 Vienna
36
Sa
 Travel Date Trip disbands Saturday morning