After looking at glossy biking tour brochures for years, 2 friends and I decided to spend what is now called an "active" holiday, so we tried one of these tours in Germany. You’ve no doubt seen descriptions of leisurely biking trips from small quaint villages to more small quaint villages, while your luggage magically transports itself from last night’s accommodation to the next. The problem is that most of these tours are so expensive, you have the right to expect the tour operator to motor you from one place to the next in a gold plated sedan. To exert that much energy and sweat at ridiculousy high prices is absurd! Nevertheless, the motivation for one of these tours was there. After some digging, I found a German company that offers a slew of tours, including one
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