As another year slides by, you’ll see from our calendar below that we’re looking forward with great anticipation to the next. And we hope you are too!
Wishing you a very Happy New Year from all of us at The Slow Cyclist.
January
2025 kicks off with a couple of rides in Rwanda; we’re excited to be staying at a camp in the Rugezi Marshes that is the centre of a project, supported by TUSK, to protect the crested crane population. Closer to home, we’ll be welcoming our guides from across Europe for a few days of team-building and training in Oxfordshire.
February
Trip Designer Emily heads off on her second recent visit to the Baltics. Here she is with a local artist in Armenia where she spent several months in 2023 and 2024 creating our wonderful journey through its central highlands.
March
Matthew and Ellie head to Portugal to put the finishing touches to our journey down the Côa Valley before we welcome guests in the spring.
April
Wildflower season begins in southern Europe. In Crete and the Mani, the meadows and olive groves burst into life. In the Taurus Mountains the valleys fill with iris, grape hyacinth, wild tulips and fragrant rose fields.
May
Join our first ever journey, on foot and by boat, in Romania’s Danube Delta. Guided by ecologist, amateur ornithologist and long-term Slow Cyclist favourite Mişu, this is the best time to see many of the delta’s extraordinary array of bird species.
June
With wildflower season well and truly under way in Transylvania, we also head further north to take on a section of Bucovina’s Via Transilvanica. A challenge, but so rewarding, with extraordinary painted monasteries to enjoy along the way. If you’d like to explore Bucovina at a more leisurely pace, join us as an extension to your Danube or Transylvania journey.
July
Our Romanian team will begin to welcome families while back at HQ we’ll be preparing to launch one of a small number of new adventures for 2026.
August
No rest for the wicked. High summer is always a time for reflection for us at HQ. How can we keep improving?
September
The cycling Road World Championships head to Africa for the first time; specifically Kigali, Rwanda. Epic cycling in the Land of a Thousand Hills and we’re running a trip to coincide with it. In Europe, our autumn season begins as the summer sun starts to cool. The perfect time to visit Poland, the Spanish Basque and Abruzzo.
October
The Kardamyli Festival returns to Greece’s Mani peninsula for its fifth edition. In Transylvania our Founder Oli will be marking 10 years since The Slow Cyclist’s first trip with a special adventure in Romania. More on that very soon.
November
With 2025 marking 10 years of The Slow Cyclist we’ll be celebrating this month with a big event in London… watch this space.
If you’d like to travel with us in 2025 and beyond, drop us a line to find out more.
