Featured Departures: Pedal & Sea Adventures, a 10-year-old Canadian adventure company, is in the business of making dreams come true. That’s not marketing spin — and not just because we don’t have a marketing department! In fact, all of our creative biking tours are near and dear to our hearts, and our clients love the passion we bring to our work. Our only mission is to impress.
After a very successful 2010, we’re back again with our fourth year of Featured Departures: special trips that are both distinctive and singular. In 2008, when we inaugurated our first series of special tours, we were presented with one problem we hadn’t anticipated: What to call them. We thought long and hard about our new offerings, and bandied about names like Premier Tours, or Enhanced Tours, or One-of-a-Kind Tours, because each description is accurate in it’s own way. But we didn’t want to give the impression that our new tours are somehow superior to the old ones. We design each and every tour to exacting standards.
That’s not marketing spin, either. Over the last decade, Pedal & Sea Adventures has grown from humble beginnings to become an international concern, offering creative bike and cooking tours throughout Atlantic Canada and Europe. In fact, the company continues to double in size every couple of years, since PSA boasts an almost-80 per cent retention rate — compared with an industry standard of less than 30 per cent. In other words, if you book with Pedal & Sea for one tour, we'll probably see you on another excursion somewhere down the road. Our clients quickly become our friends whenever we share the adventures of the road.
And so we call these new tours Featured Departures, and they come with a promise: each tour will be distinctive and worthy. Our founder, Dana Gallant, has created each one of them. Really, our new offerings are just different, but in a very good way. They’ll highlight some new angle or focus that will appeal to cyclists and adventurers. It might be a brand-new tour that we’re offering for the first time. Or might be something that builds on an established tour.
We don’t want to say too much, other than to encourage you to check this page often, for we’ll be adding Featured Departures regularly in the next few months, as we finalize our 2011 Touring Season.
Featured Departures for 2011
Norway for 2011
What can we say about Norway?
We were enchanted the moment we stepped off the plane, and our intoxication grew
with each passing day. It truly deserves every laurel that has been laid upon
it's gentle shoulders, including the World's Most Peaceful Country, the World's
Most Livable Country, and many others besides.
Like our home in Nova Scotia, Norway boasts a gorgeous and rugged coastline, but here the scenery is dominated by massive fjords and more than 50,000 islands. Norway is a land of extremes, perched unassumingly on top of the world. It's a place where the glaciers are a recent memory, where every accountant and taxi driver has Viking blood, where the sun never stops smiling in the summer.
Norwegians never take their natural surroundings for granted, and we're privileged to benefit from their dedication. Primeval, black forests stretch over mysterious granite mountains — mythological home to giants, trolls, and the giant wolf Fenrir— and viewing the world-famous fjords by boat is something every person should experience. August 7-13 (Of course, we also run this tour any week during July and August from Sunday to Saturday as long as we have four or more guests)
