Cycling, Wine and Cultural Tours in the Dordogne, Pyrenees and Southwest of France.

Chateau de Pitray

Pez News Article: Jan 2012. Few people have the opportunity to spend a week in a French chateau, to say nothing of being welcomed and hosted like old friends of the owners. But that’s exactly what you’ll experience on one of France From Inside’s trips to their family’s Chateau Pitray. Company owner Allan Reeves tells us more about his uniquely intimate European bike trips. More ... read article.

Pez News Article: Dec 2011. After 5 years of offering this tour I’m still energized and excited to do it again. It’s appropriately described as an epic challenge in an epic land. It’s ambitious, grand, magnificent, inspiring and imposing. It has beautiful landscapes, awe inspiring mountain passes and cycling history rich and unsurpassed by any other region in the world. Seriously, it ranks as some of the best cycling you could ever dream of, and after each year, I’m more addicted than ever. More ... read article.

Pez News Article: Feb 2011. Every year Allan Reeves, of France From Inside Cycling Tours, counts the days to his once a year epic cycling trip: Conquer the Pyrenees, 12 days riding from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and back, 1000 miles, and climbing 94000 feet. 2011 marks the 5th presentation of this marathon ride. PEZ takes a moment to ask him some questions about this journey.  More..read article.

Marin Independent News Article: July 2010. Mill Valley resident Allan Reeves, 43, moved from France to Bolinas with his parents at age 5. A fitness trainer and cycling enthusiast, Reeves started leading bike tours in France in 2005 after his aunt turned the family's chateau in the Bordeaux region into a bed-and-breakfast.  More...read article.

Mill Valley Patch News Article: August 2010. Mill Valley personal injury lawyer Bill Veen won't ever forget his own brush with bodily harm. It was the summer of 2005, and his tire blew out while he was careening down a narrow road on a bicycle in the Pyrenees mountains in southern France. More...read article.

Pez News Article: January 2010. PEZ takes a look at Lostende Bike Tours in the South of France. We got together with the owner and avid cyclist Allan Reeves to ask him some questions about his Pyrenees Cycling Challenge, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and back, totaling 1000 miles and 94000 ft in 12 days of riding. Then we discovered he hosts cycling vacations at a family chateau in the Bordeaux wine region. Sign us up!  More...read article.