DuVine Adventures, one of the foremost bike or cycling tour operators in Europe has teamed up with the folks at Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC). PMC is the biggest cancer research recycling event in the world, raising $30 million annually. DuVine is hosting a 7-day challenge through France, exploring villages an vineyards through France’s wine country. The tour begins July 28, 2008.
DuVine Adventures, very passionate about finding a cure for cancer through cycling and one of PMC’s most enthusiastic supporters, is offering PMC participants steep discounts on an exclusive European cycling tour.
Raise $4,000.00 for the PMC and discover France, pedaling thru famous vineyards and charming villages while making a difference. DuVine Adventures, leaders in cycling tours in France, offers an incredible itinerary, certain to engage senses, nurture curiosity and pamper tastes. The special France PMC bike tour will take place the same days as the Massachusetts Sturbridge to Provincetown ride.
Cycling Through France Itinerary
The tour includes cycling through Beaune, Pommard, Volnay, Meursault. Savigny-lès-Beaune and the wine capital of the world, Burgundy. You’ll take part in wine tastings, outdoor picnics, visits to chateaux, winemaking tours and more. Another day of cycling includes: the towns of Savigny-lès-Beaune, Aloxe-Corton, Nuits-St.-Georges, Vosne-Romanee and Vougeot & Gilly les Citeaux.
The tour includes accommodations; breakfasts; three lunches; five dinners with wine; wine cellar tastings; entrance fees to historic sites, museums and parks, and all other exclusive-access events featuring guest experts; 27-speed aluminium hybrid bicycle; transportation from rendezvous to final drop-off; gratuities for baggage, porters, and hotel service; baggage transport and much more.
The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge raises money for life-saving cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through an annual bike-a-thon that crosses the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Since its founding in 1980, the PMC has successfully melded support from committed cyclists, volunteers, corporate sponsors and individual contributors. All are essential to the PMC’s goal and model: to attain maximum fundraising efficiency while increasing its annual gift. Our hope and aspiration is to provide Dana-Farber’s doctors and researchers the necessary resources to discover cures for all cancers.
For more information, please visit: http://www.duvine.com/ or http://www.pmc.org/