It’s noon on the first day of our Puglia cycling tour when we pedal into Otranto, one of the region’s most historic port ...

It was surely with the intention of bridging a familiar divide that Butterfield & Robinson, doyens of the high-end guided bicycle tour, devised their new Rhine Cruise Biking trip, a week-long luxury sail up the mighty river from Basel to Amsterdam, with daily disembarkations for a few gentle hours of in-saddle sightseeing up pan-flat bike ...