Allo Vélo

This review is about a Bruce McAleer our cycle (through the countryside of France) guide, who works in conjunction with AlloVelo — who supplied us with the Puegot’s we rode.
Here’s Bruce’s website:
Bruce McAleer is from Boston, but says he was born in the wrong country, for it is France he is in love with, and all it’s grandeur, amazing cycling routes and perhaps the fresh food and baguettes.
I chose the Picardy (Picardie) Tour (train tickets were bought by Bruce in advance) and he met us at the bike shop at 9am on the spot, fitted us with nice Puegot road bikes & helmets and off we went to the train station. He helped us lift our bikes and hang them in the train and gave us some history on the ride out. It took about 30 mins… we unloaded and took off riding… the first town we hit he bought fresh food for our lunch. The country roads were pretty smooth and amazing, almost no cars and lots of old old I mean old churches, Château’s and Abbeys, not to mention quaint towns with stone buildings creating narrow cobblestone streets. It was right out of a movie, if one were ever made about cycling through the oldest parts of France.
We stopped and had a picnic by an ancient Roman amphitheater. Seriously. With a French field of barely and an old farm house in the distance.
We rode for 35 miles all in all, and ended in a very old fortress town called Crepy en Vois. There was a hotel where Joan of Arc spent her last night and a super ancient church we went into to. We killed a half hour waiting for the train at a pub and we were the first American’s these townspeople had actually met. We swapped names and they bought our beers. It was hilarious.
Bruce was full of historical knowledge, quite a good cyclist, and made the road trip one for the history books. My history book that is.
Viola!
Au revoir!