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| Welcome to Moto Provencale 2008!
What do you look for when you choose a holiday? Well, If you want sunshine, wonderful food, good company and exciting riding on almost-empty roads with a wide choice of motorcycles we may be able to help. We have been operating tours and trips around southern Europe for long enough to know what we like, and we hope that you will agree with us. We offer guided tours using the friendliest hotels along the way, free-format holidays based here in St Remy de Provence, sidecar training and classic bike tours and workshop courses. Moto Provencale offers a fleet of new BMW, Triumph or Royal Enfield motorcycles and Ural sidecars as well as classic Citroen 2CV cars and older motorcycles, all with GPS navigation. You can choose straight rental or a full holiday package with hotels, transfers and full concierge service. Download our 2008 PriceGuide for more information. Our emphasis is on flexibility - it's your holiday and we will try to fit in with your plans. We are a small company and like it that way, we take coffee every morning in the town and meet up with friends and guests to discuss the world and plan our day. All our routes and tours can be changed at any time to take in special events. On my holidays I like to be able to make up my mind on a whim and decide between a good days riding and an afteroon by the pool without having to explain why. I like to be able to ride at my own pace and stop to take a photo whenever I want to. I like to take my time over lunch but to ride a little longer when I'm in the mood. I can't think of any reason why you would want to go on holiday and lose that freedom just because some guy with a clipboard has a schedule. If you want to visit somewhere we'll do our best to get you there. We recently had a group who rode out as far as Lourmarin, my favourite little village in all of France. After a good lunch they rang up and apologized profusely that after tasting too much of the local wine they didn't feel safe to ride. We told them to order another bottle and two glasses for us and we set off with the trailer. After a very pleasant afternoon on the cafe terrace we drove them home as they snoozed in the back of the van. Not planned, but that for me was a perfect day.
Remember the movie "Groundhog
Day"? Well, our particular mid-life crisis involved making
sure if that ever happened to us, we would know exactly where we
would want to wake up. When we found it we had little choice but
to move here. All that remained was to justify our lifestyle to
the bank manager... And what better way than to spend our time saving
poor biking souls from bad weather, overcrowded roads, Gatso cameras
and partners with unrealistic expectations of a sunday rideout to
the seaside.
St Remy lies right in the middle of Provence, 30 minutes north of the Mediterranean. Home to Van Gogh, Nostradamus and the Marquis de Sade, its population have learnt to accept all manner of guests. With many restaurants and bars in the town centre and regular events ranging from bull runs to art fairs it's a wonderful place to base your holiday, both for biking and sightseeing.
The Biking ! Yes, maybe we should mention that.. Using either one of our fleet of bikes or your own trusty mount, we will suggest routes and kit you out with a top-of-the-range colour GPS navigation unit. This miracle of science clips to the handlebars and guides you turn by turn through the day, pointing out the best cafe for coffee, sightseeing points, our suggestion for lunch and even filling stations - guiding you right back to the hotel car park on your return. Why not try a sidecar for something completely different ? You can join our daily accompanied ride-out, or choose from any other of our routes knowing that you will never get lost and never miss the best of the towns you visit.
If you choose not to ride, or have a non-biking
partner, each day we have a trip to somewhere special, such as Aix-en-Provence
for shopping, Avignon for sightseeing, The Camargue, The Peter Mayle
trail or even a day trip to Paris on the TGV - not to mention the
almost obligatory wine tastings..
Wish you were here?
Sidecar Holidays We are also sidecar specialists, offering a full range of sidecars for rental. If you've never ridden a sidecar before you may wish to take advantage of our half-day introduction course first - its all part of the package. Provence is an ideal base for a sidecar holiday with lots of quiet country roads, and all of our sidecars come equipped with GPS if you want a helping hand with the map-reading.
SITE MAP : What you will find on the Moto Provencale website:
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Telephone from the US: 011 33 4
32 60 15 66..... From
UK: 00 33 4 32 60 15 66
E-mail us on: frontdesk@motoprovencale.com
..... Fax:
+33 4 32 60 11 15
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu