Olive Routes For Walking and Cycling

If you'd like to combine travel with your interest in olive oil how about considering the following: 

An Easy Walking Tour in Provence

If you are visiting Provence, home to many of the 'Most Beautiful Villages in France' why not arrange a private chauffeured tour with an experienced local guide. This allows you to discover much more than you would on your own. St Remy de Provence is famed for its amazing market and its landscape which inspired Van Gogh. This full day trip includes a visit to a local family owned olive oil mill and the opportunity to taste freshly pressed olive oil. The cost of your tour can be shared between several people. More details are available from Tours By Locals.

Walking in Southern Spain

The Olive Oil Greenway runs for 55km through a sea of olive trees in the Spanish province of Jaén. Your route will take you across 19th century metal viaducts and along the route taken in the past by the Olive Oil Train. For more information - including a map of the route and details of its history go to the English Language site    Vias Verdes.

Cycling Through The Andalusian Olive Groves

Few cycling experiences can match the combination of the Andalusian sun, its delicious food and fine wines. This 8 day tour provides plenty of opportunity to sample traditional dishes including visiting tapas bars. Included is a visit to the majestic Alhambra.

As transport is provided you just cycle the most interesting parts of the route - doing between 15 and 50 Km a day (although the cycling can be adapted to the groups overall cycling skills).

Andalusia Southern Spain Bike Tour through Olive Groves and Vineyards
Description: On this is bike tour you will cycle through breathtaking scenery of Andalusia, Southern Spain. Following the route of the Caliphs, from Cordoba to Granada...more... 

Cycling in Southern Spain

Olive Trails is a fully guided cycling holiday in Córdoba in southern Spain provided by Cycling Country. Over 7 days you will cycle through spectacular scenery including the olive groves from which Córdoba derived its wealth. Also included is the chance to visit an organic olive oil press and see the olives transformed into extra virgin olive oil.

If cycling is too energetic how about a walking trail along a disused Andalucian railway line.

The Olive Harvest Tour For Active Cyclists

If you are a keen cyclist why not join the Ciclismo Colavita Olive Harvest Tour.  Fantastically popular you need to book NOW for 2011 as the 2010 holiday is already sold out. This is a 'one-of-a-kind unforgettable culinary cycling journey through the Molise region of Italy'. On rolling terrain you will complete an average of 40 miles a day as you experience not only the olive harvest (picking, pressing, bottling) but also enjoy historic towns, truffle hunting, delicious cheese, pasta, pizza and the first of the new season's just pressed extra virgin olive oil. Arriving and departing from Rome this holiday provides 'red carpet treatment' throughout the tour.

Guided Tours in Spain

If you prefer to leave the hard work to someone else then how about travelling with EA Tour Specialist: staying five nights in historic hotels, spending your days seeing olives being both hand picked and mechanically harvested. There will be a tutored tasting and you will find out more about how versatile this 'liquid gold' is ...

Andalusia Olive Oil Harvest Tour
Description: This culinary tour will leave you with a clear memory as to why Spanish Olive Oil is called Liquid Gold by many chefs. The base of Mediterranean cuisine since the time of the Phoenicians, Spanish...more...

Euro Adventures also offers a range of specialist food and wine tours to Spain and Portugal, including such opportunities as an Olive Oil Tasting and Dinner in Madrid!

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