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Supplier: M08060

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Base of operations: USA -- Number of InfoHub client requests accepted: 624

European cycle trips for younger adults. Eleven countries: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Luxemburg. Over 100 departures from 6 - 36 nights, May through October. Great people, beautiful biking, fantastic regional cuisine... twice the fun and half the price of everyone else! There is no better way to see the world than by bicycle.

M08060 is a program of cycle voyages for individualistic, curious, adventurous adults, young in fact or young at heart. The pace of a bike trip is ideal for exploration and impromptu discovery. And cycling helps you fend off the thousands of pounds you would otherwise gain eating yourself silly every night.

Our guests are atypical of the world that travels by bike. Not youth hostelers or campers, not your boss on a $500-a-day "adventure" which ends each day at the local Ritz. We travel as Europeans: modestly, weighing the value of our purchases; but comfortably, seeking out the special experiences that make the trip. And we are curious. We don't shield ourselves from European cultures: we seek them out.

Questions and Answers

M08060 is a program of cycle trips for individualistic, curious, adventurous adults, young in fact or young at heart.

1. How long has the business been operating and how did it start?

M08060 was founded in 1986 by a bunch of grad students who otherwise would have had to find real jobs. Our idea was to appeal to a fun, relaxed, intellectually curious crowd: people we wanted to travel with! The trips were conceived with that group in mind.

2. What is your company's mission?

We create our own website (it shows, right?). But at least you don’t pay for expensive marketing to people who don’t go on trips. If you go, you’ll find the funds you gave us used for your trip! We don’t sink a fortune in hotels, ’cause you don’t spend much time in them. We focus on the meals, the bikes, researching our routes and the towns and villages where we spend our evenings… the important things! And we shop well. Our travel is independent and flexible. You aren’t bungied to our idea; we help you live your own. Our trips are small, generally 10 to 15, so it’s easy to be autonomous. Yet we liberate you from the hassles of solo travel: finding a room at night, getting on the right train, figuring out the best bike routes to follow or the most interesting villages to visit. We offer plenty of adventure, but not of the bed bug or big truck variety.

3. What does your company specialize in?

Road Bike Touring and European Rail Travel.

4. Who is the founder or owner of the company and briefly describe his/her past activities?

Nicolas grew up in Greenwich Village, New York, son of a wine journalist and sometime cookbook editor. He acquired an undergraduate degree in Economics, and then an MBA from Wharton with a specialty in Transportation Management, before abandoning civil society for the world of cycle travel. His current role at M08060 is logistics manager (he meshes the trips and the trains), and CFO (he refuses funding for the latest wacko/visionary idea from one of the others, so don't hold your breath on Ethan's "Sri Lanka Biking" project). He also leads trips: about 2 month's worth each year. In his spare time, he volunteers for the local pre-school PTA and cooks a mean lapin à la moutarde.

5. What is your most popular travel package and why?

It varies from year to year but the combination 2 week of trip of Lavender and Olive is a continual favorite.

6. What is the best compliment you received from a client?

From a client on Burgundy Biking: I was totally impressed by the routes – how well the lengths/ difficulties were timed, as well as the clarity of the route sheet. TERRIFIC.

Vacation Packages offered by supplier M08060
Picture	Name	Highlight	Activity	Price	Destination

	A Week in Provence - Contact Supplier	The Roman cities of Provence, cycling in olive and almond groves, perched towns of the Luberon, vineyards at Les Baux.... Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 1695	France

	The Salzburgerland & the Danube - Contact Supplier	This is our best trip which includes glorious biking through magnificent mountains and flowered villages, or along beautiful rivers on quiet bike paths. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 3495	Austria

	Norway Fjords & Glaciers - Contact Supplier	We offer a mountain biking and hiking tour where you will enjoy a week of stunning scenery, fascinating social structure and delicious salmon and herring for breakfast. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2125	Norway

	Basque Biking - Contact Supplier	Experience this great 8-day tour where you can discover beaches with incredible surf, late nights in the liveliest of bars, fishing ports and the extraordinary proximity of mountains and ocean! Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2025	Spain France

	Northern Star - Contact Supplier	In this wonderful 8-day biking tour you will visit three countries where will discover amazing cultures and places! Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2125	Belgium Luxembourg Germany

	Danish Biking - Contact Supplier	With this 7-day bicycle tour in Denmark you will discover the pastoral paradise where fantasy flies! Fairy tale villages, castles and manors, traffic-free biking, bucolic farm lands, etc. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2450	Denmark

	Umbria Unravelled - Contact Supplier	Hill towns rising from silver olive groves, quiet biking on undiscovered lanes, and one of Italy's most innovative yet approachable cuisines. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 1875	Italy

	Champagne Pedal - Contact Supplier	Experience this bicycle tour in France where you will discover beautiful vineyards, the splendor of many cultural and historic sites! Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 1395	France

	Gorges of the Cevennes - Contact Supplier	The scenic wonder of France's most isolated region, a place of such extraordinary beauty that to see it by other than bicycle would be unthinkable. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 1975	France

	Bordeaux & the Dordogne - Contact Supplier	The meandering Dordogne valley, villages cut from the cliffs that line the river, the ruby reflections of the wines, the harmony of the vineyards. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2095	France

	Castles of the Loire - Contact Supplier	In this splendid bicycle tour you will have the great opportunity to visit the best places of France! Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 1675	France

	Pinot Noir Burgundy - Contact Supplier	Cycling through Burgundy's picturesque wine towns and great vineyards, past castles and along canals, all the while earning the delicious meals you sample every night. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 1425	France

	Pure Tuscany - Contact Supplier	Tuscan hill towns, quiet lanes along ridge lines with views to forever, luscious sauces over hand-cut pastas, and beautiful Siena. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2140	Italy

	Swiss Cycling - Contact Supplier	Experience this unforgettable trip where you will be amazed by the impeccably tended beauty of the surroundings being accompanied by appropriate Alpine fare! Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2250	Switzerland

	Galicia - Celtic Spain - Contact Supplier	Our route along the banks of the wild and beautiful Miño River wanders through the sleepiest places we know, on its way to one of the most awake. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 1895	Spain

	Italian Lakes - Contact Supplier	A whimsical bike ride along the banks of the world‘s most beautiful lakes: Lago Maggiore, Lago di Como and the Cerisio. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2050	Italy Switzerland

	Portuguese Explorer - Contact Supplier	this 13 days cycling tour features Portugal most delightful sights: the lush Minho Valley, Porto, the Buçaco Forest Park, the Atlantic Coast, Nazaré, Obidos, Lisbon and much more. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 3095	Portugal

	Adventures in Alsace - Contact Supplier	This is a great bicycle tour in France where you will discover the home to picture-perfect scenery and to one of France’s most luscious cuisines. Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 2095	France

	Chardonnay Burgundy - Contact Supplier	Discover this amazing 7-day tour in France where you will visit the most splendid sites in France that will make you to remember it for your whole life! Read more >>>	Tour Package Bicycle Touring	USD 1725	France

Reviews and Comments

	Rating	By	Subject	Added

1		Mary-Ellen Boyle	Verified User Review	2007-03-22
		THIS COMPANY WAS TERRIFIC - I rank them a "10" in all possible categories!

2		Jean Stehle	Verified User Review	2005-01-07
		Thought the trip coordinator could have spent more time with the bikers during the tour to give them more accurate directions. The directions sometimes were ... view more over specific and sometimes vagues on how to get to the destinations each evening. Trip coordinator was very knowledgeable about history, food, culture, etc. and was an asset to the Blue Marble company.

3		Monique Squires	Verified User Review	2005-01-02
		The company and experience were excellent... they responded to all my questions in a timely fashion... and also accommodated my needs according to my plans and ... view more requirements. I would not hesitate to recommend them to friends and family and would even consider using them again in the future, if the opportunity should arise. The overall trip experience and assistance provided would be rated as a resounding 10 for excellence.

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