cycling

France is famous for the love of all things cycling and fortunately for us we live in an area where cycling is quite easy without too many hills. In the ancient Foret de La Double, you can both road and mountain bike. We have teamed up with our friends from Bike Hire Direct who will deliver bikes directly to our gites and do everything to make your cycling trips safe, fun and hassle free. You can contact them ahead of your holiday and organise your cycling days to work seamlessly as you bikes are delivered to our gites and collected at the end of your rental period. Easy and fun!

Rural Gites is situated on one of the local voie verte cycling routes which in the summer is a perfect safe way to enjoy the forest. The nearby velo-route voie verte de la Vallee de L'Isle in Montpon is well worth exploring as it takes you along the river valley of the L'Isle which is a beautiful safe off road journey. Montpon is on the route cycled by Lawrence of Arabia when he was a 19 year old student and wanted to cycle his own version of the Tour de France following the trail of Richard the Lionheart through the south west of France. Our friends from Freewheeling France have this route and many other helpful route maps and cycling advice for cycling en France on their website