There are many excellent companies offering cycling holidays in France, but we like to feel that we offer quite a different experience to the others.
The birth of Breton Bikes has already been recounted, but over the last 26 years a few things have happened...
We first registered Breton Bikes as a French company in 1989, and our first season was 1990. As recounted earlier I was a schoolteacher, and a couple of colleagues brought school parties that year. In all 40 of our bookings were those school parties and we had 100 bookings besides - 140 bookings in our first year. At the end of it we thought it a decent start.
The Birth of Breton Bikes and our love affair with France
A couple of people have emailed this year and mentioned that they didn't know our names - as I make great play of us being the most personal cycling holiday company in the business it seemed a hideous oversight. So then I got thinking and decided that maybe a bit of our history, and that of Breton Bikes might be worth reading so here goes...
Read more: A short biography of Breton Bikes cycling in France