We can say without doubt that the best cycling conditions are to be found in the Dordogne: quiet country roads to suit all levels of riding, beautiful scenery, and one of the cleanest rivers in Europe to cool off in… La Dordogne. Weather conditions here are great for riding from April to November.

Since 2000, Aquitaine Bike has organized cycling tours throughout France and Spain and worked as consultants to U.S. and British bicycle touring companies. Alongside their bike hire services, they specialize in self-guided custom tours in the Dordogne. Their system and organisation of these cycling tours keep costs to a minimum. Check out their Touring page for details. You can find suggestions for accommodation on the Where to Stay page.

The routes and itineraries that Aquitaine Bike design are the result of 20 years of personal cycling experience in the region and 10 years of client feedback.

Visit their Southwest France Tour page for information on our self-guided trip across Aquitaine, from the Dordogne to the Basque Country.

The Dordogne, or Perigord region, is a treasure of natural beauty, prehistory, history, architecture, and gourmet cuisine built around such delicacies as foie gras, the famous black truffle, walnuts, and fresh strawberries. Magnificent feudal and renaissance castles, prehistoric cave art, quiet country roads linking charming honey-coloured stone villages, meandering rivers, and dense oak and chestnut forests full with deer and wild boar. This magical land will enchant you!

Aquitaine Bike are fully insured and listed with the Ministry of Health, Youth, and Sports, reference number 02407ET0126.

Robert and Amy Owensmith
24220 Coux et Bigaroque, France
Email: aquitainebike@gmail.com
Tel / Fax: +33 (0) 553.30.35.17

For more info visit: www.aquitainebike.com

Aquitaine Bike is highly recommended by

• B&B Ferme de Tayac : www.fermedetayac.com
• Scenic Dordogne : www.scenicdordogne.com
• Walking Dordogne : www.walkingdordogne.com
• Les Eyzies Tourist Info : www.leseyzies-tourist.info
• The Dordogne : www.thedordogne.com
• Dordogne Tourist Info : www.dordognetourist.info
• Duke of Dordogne : www.dukeofdordogne.com
• High on Mountain Biking : www.highonmountainbiking.com

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There are 1000’s of buisness owners in the Dordogne trying to run their buisness off the internet.Having a nice web site promoting your business is extremely important, but, unless it is high on the search engines, so that potential customers can actually find your site, it’s pretty much useless, a bit like having a nice sports car, but no petrol. The average person will spend on average about 600 Euro for a web site, 200 Euro per year for domain and hosting, 150 on advertising costs, and lot’s of free time but most people do not spend any time or money on having their site optimized.
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We specialize in web sites for the Dordogne region. We know how extremely difficult it is to get your name or business onto the search engines. We do not just design web sites, we help you get your site seen by potential customers from around the world.

Designing a web site is the easiest part, getting people to find your site amongst the more than 92 Billion!! (indexed by google in 2006) sites can be tricky and very expensive.
I have designed more than 20 Dordogne related sites to help advertise your web site after it has been launched.

Let Dordogne Design put you on the web, can you afford not to?

Here are some stats that show the importance of a web site:

Key facts and figures from 1 March 2007

• Over 3.1 million tourists
• Average length of stay (all accommodation): 10 days
• Representing almost 31 million nights’ accommodation
• A direct turnover of at least 980 million euros
• Over 6,000 permanent jobs in tourism (6900 in July & Aug.)
• Tourism in the Dordogne represents over 31% of the local economy

More facts and figures.

• 77% booked part of their vacation online. (airline, ferry, rental car etc)
• 93% of visitors researched the area online before visiting.
• 71 % of visitors booked accommodation online

5 years ago, these figures would have all been below 30%, and 10 years ago they would have all been below 3%, however, in 3 year time they will ALL be above 90%

These figures show the importance of a web site, and no one can design, host, advertize and optimize your dordogne related site better than Dordogne Design .
Dordogne Design, owned by de Paulus who knows how to put the Dordogne and your site / buisness on the web.
With more than 20 Dordogne related web sites that are already high on the mayor Search Engines list are ready to advertise your site.
Advertising a site designed by Dordogne Design on all our parent sites is FREE, saving you hundreds of Euro’s, and focusing only on the Dordogne which will attract only people that are searching for Dordogne related sites.

Dordogne Design does not design web sites for a living, which means the prices are as low as you will ever find, and your web site is a de Paulus Project, which means he will always be there for you whenever you need help or advice.
Get in touch with Dordogne Design and see what they can do for you… Can you afford not to?

There are about 4 million visitors from around the world that visit the Dordogne on a yearly basis. The tourist season in the Dordogne, has rissen from 4 months a year 5 years ago, to 7 months today.

de Paulus explains that people need (a) website(s) today to reach these visitors from around the world. The latest figures published in May of 2007 show the following.

Key facts and figures from 1 March 2007

• Over 3.1 million tourists
• Average length of stay (all accommodation): 10 days
• Representing almost 31 million nights’ accommodation
• A direct turnover of at least 980 million euros
• Over 6,000 permanent jobs in tourism (6900 in July & Aug.)
• Tourism in the Dordogne represents over 31% of the local economy

More facts and figures.

• 77% booked part of their vacation online. (airline, ferry, rental car etc)
• 93% of visitors researched the area online before visiting.
• 71 % of visitors booked accommodation online

5 years ago, these figures would have all been below 28%, and 10 years ago they would have all been below 3%, however, in 3 year time they will ALL be above 90%.

The Internet, the whole world at your finger tips, no borders, no bounderies.

But having a web site means nothing at all, it’s all about marketing your web site, how to get potential customers onto YOUR web site.

de Paulus has more than 30 dedicated Dordogne web sites high on the main search engines Google, Yahoo, Live, ASK etc.. de Paulus explains that all his sites are monitored and tracked, each site uses various and different Meta Tags / Key words / Descriptions, by doing this, he can see what the people actually type into the search engines to find what they are looking for, and then adding them to the other sites.

There is NO WAY anyone can quarentee you a place in the top pages of the search engines without paying for “placed ads” which is based on a payment per click, if I click on your ad, you pay for it, this can be VERY expensive, and very few clicks are genuine.

The only way to get high on the search engines, is to work hard, have a “clean” web site, and the most important, is to have other “clean” web sites” link back to yours.. The more times your site and link is mentioned on other sites, this makes the search “bots” think that your site is populer, and bumps it higher on the rankings..

www.depaulus.com has over 30 sites that do this ALL strongly SEO’d (Search Engine Optimized) for the Dordogne and some for the Aquitaine.
If you would like de Paulus to optimize your web site for the search engines, you can contact him at www.depaulus.com

depaulus.com has launched 2 new web sites, advertising holiday accommodation in the Dordogne and Aquitaine region.
www.dordognesnicest.com and www.nicestvacationrentals.com specializes in this region.
www.dordognesnicest.com is for holiday accommodation in the Dordogne, and www.nicestvacationrentals.com is for accommodation in the Aquitaine Region (incl. Dordogne)