Zephyr Blog

If you’ve never been wine tasting, or haven’t done so often, you might be under the impression that wine tasting has to be a complicated process filled with opportunities for faux pas. It doesn’t have to be this way. At … Continue reading →

Gone are the days of projector slideshow recaps of your summer vacation.  Yet in a digital age, there’s even more to share with your friends and family!  I have been sharing my photos, videos and thoughts from my travels on … Continue reading →

There are hundreds of active European adventures you could choose to do on your vacation. At Zephyr Adventures, we have run active tours in a total of 11 different locations in Europe, although we don’t run every trip every year. … Continue reading →

I returned a few days ago from running two bicycle tours in Provence. I have to say the area is really special for bike touring. In fact, my co-guide Giovanni, who runs our Italian tours and is ardently pro-Italian whether … Continue reading →

Over the years we frequently have been approached to create private tours for a group of friends, a social organization, or a business. When these work, they are super fun. 90% of the time they don’t work because they the … Continue reading →

I am sitting in my hotel room in Avignon, listening to the sounds of an accordion player trying to make a living and watching locals and tourists alike stroll through the ancient streets of this stupendous town. Provence is wonderful … Continue reading →

Some of you might not know that Zephyr Adventures started in 1997 as Zephyr Inline Skate Tours, the first tour company in the world to meet the needs of inline skaters (often called Rollerbladers). Since that time, inline skating has … Continue reading →