Themed Cycling Breaks

Whether food and drink, history and heritage, arts and crafts, wildlife and nature, environmental art and sculptures, film and TV, family breaks, gardens and nurseries we are able to design and provide a cycling break to suit specific themes.

Using our extensive knowledge of the area, we identify the best places to visit according to your theme, select the best scenic and quiet country road routes according to your prefrred daily cycling distance, select accommodation to suit your budget with tea rooms / food pubs en route and evening meal restaurants, - and combine it all with any other requirements eg. airport or railway station pickup to package it all together into a tailor made cycling holiday. Just contact us and we will work out options and respond with a price quote.

We list below some tours we already have outlined, i.e.

The Natural Galloway Cycling Tour
Murder Mystery Cycling Tour

All prices are based on 2 people sharing a room in a tried and tested quality 3 or 4 star B&B.

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Natural Galloway Cycling Tour - TBNat1

- Visit a nature reserve, wildlife centre or other interesting nature location on each day of this 4 day tour. Price: £245 p.p.

This 4 day tour begins in Castle Douglas and heads towards the Loch Ken bird hides and the Galloway Kite Trail. The Raids Road takes you to Clatteringhshaws loch, wildlife visitor centre and tea room. An extra 8 miles takes you to the red deer range (tours) and the wild goat park before returning to stay the night in New galloway - 26 + 8 miles.

A cycle beside Loch Ken takes you to the red kite feeding station and on to a tea room break at a heritage and wildlife centre. Continue on to Kirkcudbright where the Galloway Wildlife Conservation Centre awaits - 23 miles in total.

Day 3 is a countryside route to Mersehead RSPB centre before heading through the National Scenic Area to spend the night at Kippford with National Trust land and Rough Island - accessible but not at bird nesting time - 28 miles.
Return to Castle Douglas - 21 miles or longer - an on to Threave Estate to bird hides and Threave Garden with wildlife centre and birdhide viewing area.
End the tour with a visit to Sulwath brewery in Castle Douglas!
Contact us to obtain more information on this tour. 

Natural Galloway Cycling Tour

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Murder Mystery Cycling Tour - TBMM1

- read the Five Red Herrings murder mystery book set in Galloway by Dorthy L. Sayers and visit the locations. Price: £495 p.p.

This is a 7 day cycling tour following a route to 'real places' mentioned in the Five Red Herrings novel written and set in Galloway. The towns of Kirkcudbright and Gatehouse of Fleet are heavily featured with several significant countryside locations which you can visit by bicycle.

Lord Peter Wimsey is the sleuth, who was played by Ian Carmichael when the book was serialised on TV  in 1976. The plot involves the artists colony in Kirkcudbright - which is still the case today as it is themed as an artists town with several art galleries.

In Gatehouse of Fleet, a National Scenic Area, the author Dorothy L. Sayers used to stay the summer months in the Anwoth Hotel, only recently re-named the Ship Inn, where she wrote much of the book. This is now an excellent quality hotel and would be an ideal location to stay during the tour.
So, as well as getting an interesting tour of Galloway by bicycle, you can follow this theme to provide an extra interest. Contact us to obtain more information on this tour.

Murder Mystery Cycling Tour