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Once you choosen and reserved a destination, we will send you plenty of relevant information that will help you to prepare your cycling or walking vacation. That will include both internet links and recomended readings related to your tour, in order to make your bicycle or walking trip even more interesting.
Meanwhile, just as an introductory information, we recommend the following links and readings:
Recomended Readings:
The Most Beautiful Villages of Spain by Hugh Palmer
The Foods and Wines of Spain by Penelope Casas and Oscar Ochoa
Portugal: A Companion History (Aspects of Portugal S.) by Jose Hermano Saraiva, Ian Robertson, and Ursula Fonss
Food of Portugal by Jean Anderson
The Taste of Portugal: Edite Vieira
The Portuguese - The Land And Its People: Marion Kaplan
Useful Sites:
Spain:
Tourism of Spain: http://www.spain.info/
Paradores de España: www.parador.es/english/index.jsp
Andalucia site: http://www.andalucia.org/modulos.php?modulo=Index&nuevoidioma=eng
Camiño site: http://www.galinor.es/c-santiago/historia-e.html
Camiño site: http://www.interam.com/camino/indexeng.htm
Portugal:
Recently, Lisbon came top in the New York Times "The 53 Places to Go in 2008". According to the NYT: "Bargain-seeking tourists have long flocked to Lisbon, typically among the most affordable of European cities. But now the Portuguese capital is also emerging as a cultural force (...)". Check more reasons in this link: article
Other recent New York Times articles about Portugal: Douro: In Portugal, a New Stop on the Global Wine Trail: article
Douro, by Unesco: http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=1046
Tourism of Portugal: www.visitportugal.com/Cultures/en-US/default.html
Pousadas de Portugal: www.pousadas.pt/historicalhotels/EN
Alentejo site: http://www.visitalentejo.pt/vEN
Holiday home rentals and property finders in Portugal: http://www.portugalportfolio.com/
France:
Tourism of France: http://us.franceguide.com/
Miscellaneous bike sites:
My Bike Site .com: http://www.MyBikeSite.com/index1.htm
Real Adventures: http://www.realadventures.com/
Gordon's Guide: www.bicycling-vacations.com
Mike's Bikes: http://mikesbikes.com
Sweet Pete's Store: www.sweetpetes.com
Adventureyears: www.adventureyears.com
Bicycle Traveler: www.bicycletraveler.com
Bike Outfit: www.outfittertours.com
Bill Jones bicycling site: www.bill-jones.org
Bicycle Forum and Reviews for all types of Bikes. Road, mountain, BMX, recumbent and more: TwoSpoke Bicycle & Cycling Forum
Travel links and directories:
Riptrax Travel Resource
Viesearch: viesearch
Directory from: Apexoo
Lookdirectory: LookDirectory.com
Tours.com: www.tours.com/
Memorexa site: memorexa.com
Big Traveling .com: www.bigtraveling.com/
Directory Cycling .com: www.directorycycling.com
Turn to Travel: www.turntotravel.com
Pete and Ed Books: http://peteandedbooks.com/
Cycling Links: http://cyclinglinks.tripod.com
Directory4travel: www.directory4travel.com
Travelers Digest: www.travelersdigest.com
Tourdust: www.tourdust.com
Athens: http://www.athens.com - brings you information about travel in Athens, Greece.
Tenerife hotels: more than one hundred hotels and resorts in nice locations.
International flights: inexpensive airline tickets at Globester.com within and from USA and Canada.
Florence Tours: offers full day and Half day tours in Florence and Tuscany, Italy.
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