From our Top 10 Bike Rides, Top 10 Wines and Top 10 Hotels for 2011, you can see just how incredible our year has 
been. And with our Top 10 Blog Posts, as voted for by our guests and followers, we can see what your favorite moments were as well.
Thanks to our awesome team both in the field and at our home base, our blogging in 2011 has covered every aspect of DuVine Adventures. From our new Pro Series bike tours to the DuVine Apres Velo series, from our guides’ pre-tour adventures to the blow by blow accounts of the tours themselves, we’ve covered it all. And it’s all here, on the DuVine Blog, for you to relive your favorite adventures or plan your next your next journey. So without further ado, we present to you the Top 10 Blog Posts of 2011, in order:
1 – A Brief History of Bicycle Racing in Europe – At DuVine Adventures we spend much of our Summers with our guests on bike tours in Europe, several of those bike tours correspond with famous European bicycle races such as, the Tour de France and Giro d’Italia – where we run our specialty tours; The Pyrenees Bike Tour – Tour de France and The Giro d’Italia Bike Tour -
2 – Guest Blog: Erica Stokes, repeat DuViner – In August of 2010, I (Erica Stokes) was badly in need of a scenery change. I had to get away. Feeling the itch to get out of town, I Googled “life changing trips” and clicked away until a I found myself on the DuVine Adventures website a short while later.
3 – The Conde’ Nast Travel Specialists Summit – Earlier this month I attended the Conde’ Nast Travel Specialist Summit in Las Vegas (mentioned also in my How to Fly Home in a Blizzard post).
4 – Puglia Bike Tour – biking in a land of conquest – Italian tour manager Tom Coppock shares the history of Puglia and why it makes it such a great place to consider as a bicycle tour in Italy.
5 – The World’s Greatest Bicycle Tour Guides – Andy has just returned from our guide training in Italy and shares his thoughts in this quick video.
6 – The Best of Provence in 2011 – DuVine has done it again! In 2011, we’ve altered and improved our Bicycle Tour Provence Itinerary to make it the best trip we’ve ever offered in the region.
7 – Lugano – Switzerland’s Italian Gem – Many of our guests spend a few days before and after their bicycle tour in the area that a tour begins or ends.
8 – DuVine Ireland – Cycling the Connemara Coast – You’ll find no blarney here, but an accurate description of what awaits you when you join a DuVine bicycle trip in Ireland.
9 – Where in the Alentejo was Andy? – Cycling deep into the heart of Portugal in typical Andy DuVine style!
10 – The European Wine Harvest 2011 – A hundred days ago, while western Europe was basking in some unusably warm April sunshine, vines from Burgundy to Bordeaux, Touraine to Tuscany and Alsace to Alentejo began to bloom.
Check out all of these posts for some great reading and ideas for your future bicycle tours and adventure travels.
