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Guide to Cycling the Atlantic Pyrenees free for 4 more days only
Just a quick reminder: The Guide to Cycling the Atlantic Pyrenees is free for 4 more days only. You can download the guide as a PDF by visiting this post. You can email the guide to as many of your friends as you’d like. After that, it will be $9, but will continue to be free [...]
Your help wanted – New TDF Tips Guide: Tackling L’Etape
I’m currently working on a new ebook guide concentrating on helping you Tackle L’Etape du Tour. I’m really interested to hear from you if you have any ideas on what could be in the guide. Of course, I have many ideas, but want to be guided by the TDF Tips readers. Things to consider: Training Nutrition leading up to [...]
Free for a Limited Time – New TDF Tips Guide: Cycling the Atlantic Pyrenees
I am really excited to announce the release of my latest ebook: Cycling The Atlantic Pyrenees. The Cycling the Atlantic Pyrenees guide covers tips and tricks for getting to the Atlantic Pyrenees for an epic cycling adventure and includes; Getting There (airports to fly in to) Baggage Restrictions Taking your bike How to pack your bike (and some bike case [...]
Free download – French verbs spreadsheet
Do you get a bit nervous when going to a non-English speaking country? I know I do, and it’s because I worry about what I’ll do if something happens, and I can’t communicate in order to sort the issue out. I think learning some of the local language is an absolute sure-fire way to help make sure [...]
New TDFTips Guide to the Atlantic Pyrenees: free for a limited time
I am pleased to announce the impending release of the newest TDF Tips Guide, Cycling The Atlantic Pyrenees. The new guide is a few weeks away from release, and will be free for a few weeks only. To ensure you get it for free, please head on over to the mailing list sign up, and sign up [...]
Gear review: Lowepro CompuRover AW Backpack
*Apologies for the sometimes-less-than-optimal photos, I was late for my plane. With the advent of cheap prosumer digital SLRs, I thought it would be interesting to review my new Lowepro Compurover AW backpack to help you decide upon a backpack to travel with, if you have camera gear to take to France. When looking at a backpack, [...]
TDF/L’Etape/Leisure Planning Itinerary Download
Now that the 2010 Tour de France and L’Etape du Tour are done and dusted, it is only a mere 2-and-a-bit months until the 2011 Parcours is announced. I have a few ebooks coming out to support your planning for 2011, including an Etape-only guide, TDF-only guide and a leisure-only guide. I’m also putting together an [...]
Travel Photography ebook
From time to time, I’ll recommend other products for readers of tdftips to check out. Sometimes these products will be affiliate products (for which I get a small commission). Today I’m going to give you guys a heads up about an awesome product from Digital Photography School, called Transcending Travel. This is an awesome product, and [...]
Free Western EU flight planner
I’ve had a comprehensive (8800 lines!) Western EU flight planner made for tourdefrancetips.com readers. It consists of: Origin Airport and Airport Code, and country Destination Airport and Airport code, and country Airline, airline code Baggage Restrictions Information on how bikes are considered with respect to baggage (i.e. are they included in your baggage, carried free etc) Excess baggage costs So, you could filter [...]
Cyclomundo: helping you ride L’Etape and La Marmotte
I’ve previously written about the ins and outs of planning a trip to do L’Etape du Tour, particularly touching upon the challenges with logistics; you can read more here and here. I’ve also identified La Marmotte (be warned, the official site is absolutely woeful) as something totally worth doing in addition to L’Etape du Tour. [...]
