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Category: Tourist Services in Tuscany Customwalks specializes in developing customized walking, biking and scooter trips for private groups in Italy. We also offer over 30 regularly scheduled walking and biking tours in Italy. Lat N: 43.45611 Lon EO: 11.45745
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Customwalks Ltd
Web: www.customwalks.com
E-mail: info@customwalks.com
Italian operations office
Loc. Bricciano 41
53013 Gaiole in Chianti (Siena, Italy)
Tel (+39) 051 695 7104
Fax (+39) 051 695 7104
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Services:
Customized trips for private groups:
- Walking
- Biking
- Scooter / Vespa
- Wine Tours
- Cooking tours
- Cooking lessons
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 Customwalks specializes in developing customized walking, biking and scooter trips for private groups in Tuscany. Customwalks is a New Zealand tour operator with offices in Italy and France. The company managers are from New Zealand, Canada, USA, Italy and France. Our guides are local Italian, French, Spannish, and ex-pat Kiwis, Canadians and Americans living in Europe. The majority of our clientele come from the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
Customwalks Ltd. offers regularly-scheduled, week-long guided walking and biking trips. You can join other like-minded travelers for a fun, unique, active and carefree holiday.
Hotels: We have designed our scheduled trips to be affordable. Our trip accommodations are in charming, comfortable, well-located three star hotels. All rooms have private facilities.
Food: We choose local specialties but with an eye to a traveler's diet. We know the best trattorias and bistros in the area. We take great care in developing menus that provide you with the best
that each restaurant has to offer while sampling a cross-section of regional cuisine.
Activity: Our walks through the countryside are normally between four and six hours a day (10 - 18 kms) while our bike routes regularly entail about 50 kms of riding with optional extensions for keen riders. All our bike trips are van supported.
Special Events: Tuscany has so much to offer, from food and wine to artists and artisans, and thousands of years of history, so we compliment our walks and rides with special events such as cooking demonstrations, winery visits and tastings, and special guided visits of historic towns, castles, and villas.
  
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Tuscany on two wheels.
Sixty years ago today, the first Vespa rolled off the production line, starting an Italian love affair that's still going strong. Tom Robbins hits the road in search of La Dolce Vita .
A red Vespa buzzes through a sun-baked Tuscan village. Past a pavement cafe where elegant heads swivel for a better look, past old women with brooms and black aprons, who stop chatting to smile and wave. As it pulls up on the cobbles of the small piazza, a gaggle of children throw down their bicycles and run out in raptures to greet it. So far, so clichéd, but look closer. As he takes off his helmet, you can see the scooter rider isn't olive-skinned Giovanni from Florence, home of Leonardo, Michelangelo and the Medicis ...
The article was published by "The Observer" on April 23rd, 2006 See it here!
TheObserver .
April 23rd, 2006 United Kingdom
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Vrooms with a view.
Just because it's a cliche, doesn't mean it's not fun. Pootling round by Vespa is one of the loveliest ways to see Italy. The only snag is the fear factor. Unless you were brought up on a scooter, it can be hairy negotiating cobbled streets and winding lanes. Which is why ScooterBella, which started week-long guided tours in Tuscany last year, is such a good idea.
This year it's expanded into Puglia and Provence and added weekend breaks. Obviously, driving round in a group with a guide is not very Gregory Peck, but who cares? You get to see the countryside with someone else checking the map and taking you to their favourite little cafes and restaurants - ones you won't find in the guidebooks...
The article was published by "The Guardian" on January 20th, 2007 See it here!
TheGuardian .
January 20th, 2007 United Kingdom
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Living la Vespa vita
The scooter holiday is an exhilarating way to catch the sights, sounds and smells of Italy, as Gregory Peck demonstrated 50 years ago. In Chianti, Charles Starmer-Smith follows his lead.
Tuscany may be famed for its fine reds, but here among the rolling hills of the Chianti region we had stumbled across a distinctly British whine. With cheeks an alarming shade of burgundy, a generously sized lady had flung her mountain bike to the ground in disgust. Sweat dripped from every pore, drenching her Lycra one-piece, as she heaved to catch breath after what was a thigh-burning ascent ...
The article was published by the "Daily Telegraph " on May 16th, 2007 See it here!
DailyTelegraph .
May 16th, 2007 United Kingdom
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Tuscany by Vespa
Will Hide stops traffic but manages to avoid a prang, unlike the other tourists on a scooter tour of the Chianti hills.
There are several ways to blend in with the locals in Italy and simultaneously max out your cool points. Even if you don’t speak a word of Italian, buying a copy of La Gazzetta dello Sport will imbue you with instant street cred for just one euro. Tuck its pink pages under your arm as you grab your morning cornetto and caffè – always consumed standing up at the bar – while sunglasses tilt at a jaunty angle on top of your head, whatever the weather. As for getting from A to B, it has to be a Vespa, the waspish scooter that transports everyone from local priests to flirting teens ...
The article was published by "Times On Line" on June 23rd, 2007 See it here!
TimesOnline .
June 23rd, 2007 United Kingdom
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