Wild Atlantic Cycling Blog

Balkans on a Time Budget! You no longer need a whole 18 days to join in on our Balkans Tour that goes all the way from Dubrovnik to Istanbul in 2024! We’ve broken it into 2 terrific tours within a tour for our AVID riders to enjoy. You can now opt to join us for just 6 days from Dubrovnik to Ohrid (the tougher section), or 11 days from Ohrid to Istanbul. Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia is the ideal place to start or end your ride (or have as a rest day if you are joining us for the duration). The airport is well serviced by the major airlines and the town itself sits in a beautiful location on the Lake itself. New 6-day tour in the Balkans! For the 'time poor' of you let me give you a taster of our 6 day tour. Arriving at the airport in Dubrovnik the nearby Cavtat makes an ideal seaside start to our journey. If you are not TOO time poor do try to arrive a few days before to acclimatise, swim a little and take a trip to the spectacular world heritage town of Dubrovnik. To...

It's important that we check, check and double check hotels on our cycle tours to ensure that our clients enjoy the best possible experience. It's also one of my favourite parts of the job 😉 Balkans By Bicycle launches next year and we've selected a glorious hotel smack bang in the middle of the Fatih District of Istanbul less than half a mile from Topkapi Palace itself to finish this unique tour from the Adriatic. At The Armada Hotel they 'strive to delight ''Istanbul Lovers'' by resurrecting a quintessential identity which marked 19th Century Istanbul' Its rooftop terrace boasts a breath-taking view of the Sea of Marmara pouring into the Bosphorous and the interior lobby is decorated with a plethora of relics of a bygone era epitomising some of Istanbul's special traditions.  Enjoy a traditional Turkish tea in the well decked out comfortably-cushioned lobby served by a smiling waiter and brought out on the iconic silver tray in tiny tulip-sha...