Category: Tourism & Travel

1. H-C Travel Motorcycle Tours Celebrates Silver Jubilee With New Website And Tours

   Posted on 12:00pm Sunday 2nd Dec 2018

   H-C Travel is preparing for its 25th touring season in 2019 with a brand new website www.hctravel.com, and branding, as well as exciting new tours in South America and Scotland
   
   David Grist, owner of H-C Travel, said "We're kicking off our silver jubilee year with the launch of our new website and logo. We've had great feedback about the website's visual impact and believe it reflects more appropriately the amazing holiday experiences we provide for motorcyclists. Take a look at www.hctravel.com. We hope you'll like it."
   
   David added ''We're delighted to be adding several new tours. As well as fabulous guided rides on The Trail Of The Incas, riding the South American Lake District and Patagonia, we've organised a 'Highland Fling', guided by our man in Scotland, Chris Smith. Now we're looking forward to the next 25 years of spreading our bit of motorcycling happiness!"
   
   H-C Travel Ltd was established in 1994 and is the UK's leading specialist operator of fly - ride motorcycle tours to destinations around the world. Based in Overton, Hampshire it also has a retail travel agency for the North Hampshire/Berkshire borders (serving the area between Basingstoke, Newbury, Winchester and Andover.) Its Orange & Black brand offers Harley-Davidson authorised guided tours, self-guided tours and rentals in the USA. H-CTravel is uniquely positioned in the UK motorcycle tour market with professional travel industry recognition, ATOL bonding and TTA membership.

2. Winter & Spring Rides, Big Savings!

   Posted on 12:00pm Saturday 22nd Sep 2018

   Kick Out Those Winter Blues with Orange & Black...
   
   Thre 3 ways to get you your winter motorcycle kicks:

   • Winter/Spring USA Rental Special Offers - create your own expedition in the off-peak season. See America and SAVE hundreds of pounds.
      
   • Florida Self-guided tour - Florida's year round sunshine makes it a fantastic winter riding destination
      
   • Mexico and Cuba guided tours - Road and adventure guided tours await you in these magical Latin American countries 
     
     
   • Orange & Black...... for your ride of a lifetime, every time!
     
     www.orange-and-black.co.uk
     
     
     

3. 'LIVE' In The Deep South: Silver Jubilee Tour

   Posted on 12:00pm Friday 29th Jun 2018

   2019 is H-C Travel's Silver Jubilee year - we've been organising tours around the world since 1994!
   

   To celebrate, let us take you to the very soul of American music and along some of the twistiest roads in the world. We've a very special 15 day motorcycle adventure for you 'LIVE' In The Deep South from Nashville to New Orleans.  
   
   We’ll ride America’s most famous stretch of road – the Tail of the Dragon – so good we ride it twice... Along the way is some impressive scenery – the Great Smoky Mountains, Cumberland Falls State Park and the mighty Mississippi River and Delta.

   We'll be submersed in blues, country, jazz, bluegrass, R’n’B, rock and roll, rockabilly and all shades in between.

   Your guide, Marc Sloan, is looking forward to taking you on this ride down musical memory lane. Here's a quick video intro from Marc

   

4. Sat nav v maps

   Posted on 12:00pm Tuesday 22nd May 2018

   I used to like the idea of being spontaneous and also did not fancy using a sat nav however once you have tried to get a room somewhere to find you cannot get one as they are full due to a local festival, over priced (Italy circa 2001, 11 pm in a roadside motel style @ €175 comes to mind) , you cannot find one (sounds strange I know but there are miles and miles of nothing in parts of Germany - well apart from excellent scenery) and to book into somewhere and find it awful, we now do as above - i.e. find a final destination and plan route around it. 

   We use a combination of Biker Friendly accommodation on www.thebikerguide.co.uk and if there is nothing in the area we want we also look on booking.com.
   
   We did a trip a couple of years ago with the final destination being Colditz Castle, which you can stay in. Went in July for 3 ish weeks with everything booked, set into sat nav and you know what - thank goodness as it rained everyday but one. We would set off with the next place in the sat nav - take off route when we wanted and arrive at destination stress free.

   We stayed at some great places, travelled fantastic roads and routes, ate well, found our way easy even with the many roadwork diversions and would pass by others at the side of the road battling with a big wet soggy map to find their way. We did also pack a map as back-up or to look at a vaster area on a larger scale, however we are happy to say it return dry and not soggy. 

   I think once you have used a sat nav on a big trip which gets you to destinations easy, gets you out of a diversion and back on route, helps you navigate/find food and petrol, you wonder what you did before the United States military released the technology for GPS!
   
   

   

5. The third Isabena Rallye - 2 Days of Fun!

   Posted on 12:00pm Wednesday 25th Apr 2018

   On the 1st - 2nd September 2018, the third Isabena Rallye will take place, around the beautiful Isabena Valley.
   It doesn’t matter if you drive a Enduro motorcycle, a sport motorcycle or a touring motorcycle or how much experience you have. The slogan of the rallye is: 2 Days of Fun!
   
   The rallye is for motorcycles only and the participant will ride mostly on paved roads.
   
   Further more we will organize some special tests as well as some off-road sections which will require your skills, but also require a pinch of luck. Perfect are motorcycles with which you can easily ride a 200km day trip through this unique part of the Pyrenees, as well as a few kilometers on simple off-road tracks.

   The rallye will be organized in a way so that you can finish in a good position even if you don’t like to ride the off-road sections or the special test.
   For the final we will set up another tricky challenge with our own off-road motorcycle for the top riders.

   Isabena Rallye Trailer

   www.isabena.eu
   
   

   Article supplied by Camping & Bungalowpark Isábena