If you always wanted to do the Camino de Santiago, or St. James Way, you should grab your chance in the holy year 2010!

The Jubilee Year of Compostela has been celebrated since the middle ages, whenever the feast day of the Apostle Saint James, 25th July, fell on a Sunday. Throughout the year there will be all kinds of activities such as temporary exhibitions and the more stable permanent events such as museums, interpretation centres and publications. There will be historical and modern art exhibitions and a complete program of sports, arts, cultural and social events throughout Galicia, including thinking forums and conference cycles, a performing arts program and small, medium and large scale concerts and obviously, all this will attract much more pilgrims than in normal years.

Bike Spain Tours can offer you 11 dates on which we start our guided tour in 2010, with the Monday the 19th of July as our special departure date which will reach Santiago de Compostela on Sunday the 25th of July. If you prefer to do the Camino without guiding we can offer you a trip in which we book your hotels, arrange a bike for you and provide you with maps and road books.

Because of the higher interest in the Camino in 2010 we recommend not to wait too long to place your booking. The next chance you have to do El Camino the Santiago in a holy year won’t be until 2021!

Also in 2010 we will be organizing a tour around the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France.
The tour of the Vuelta a España will take place from the 12th until the 19 of September 2010 on which day we’ll see the final stage of the Vuelta in Madrid.
This classic tour allows you to experience the last days of La Vuelta in the provinces of Segovia and Madrid, closely following the cyclists as they wind their way along the spectacular routes and scenery of this richly historic area. The beauty of La Vuelta is that we have the opportunity to get up close to the cyclists, watch them pass by, witness the starting and/or finishing points of the various stages and visit the hotels where the teams stay. The course of the Vuelta a España will be announced on the 16th of December and we’ll follow shortly with the itinerary of our tour.

In 2010 we will be following the final stages of the Tour de France closely. Not only will you live the excitement of the race, but you will be exploring a truly wondrous part of the world; the imposing Pyrenees mountain range and the culturally rich province of Aquitania.
Starting in Bordeaux on the 17th of July we will then travel south to Sarlat and Argelès where, during the following days, we will ride great routes on lovely small well asphalted and winding roads while keeping a close eye on the riders of the Tour who are never far from us. The tour will finish on the 25th in Bordeaux, the same day as the Tour the France finishes in Paris.